Yeah, he actually becomes the person, which I, I suppose as an actor is the highest complement.Įddie Griffin: Yeah, my most, uh, exciting part, uh, was, I'd have to say was, uh, the rib shack is what I'd like to see, I'd like to see the rib shack.
uh, so, but you, as Eddie was saying, you know, you gotta be a special type of person to be able to do it, yeah, it's, yeah.Įddie Griffin: You gotta have that gift to morph, you know, a lot of people do characters, you see them, yeah man, yeah, nah, nah, it's a character. He's the best, he's the best at it, and, and a lot have emulated him. Chinese dude with Eddie coming out of it now. Wong, and Eddie ain't in there, and then when they yell cut, he'd start talking to us as Eddie, so it's this.Įddie Griffin. and the dude turned around and look at you, and them eyes is Mr. Wong, I mean, we're standing up on the church.Įddie Griffin. and allow that character to take over, 'cause when you look through all that make-up, you don't see Eddie's eyes, you know, when he was, uh, Mr. It's cool.Įddie Griffin: I gave him a nickname called Eddie Morphin.Įddie Griffin: You know, he has the ability to morph, you know, he, he can take himself and put it in a little closet in his mind somewhere. Katt Williams: Eddie, you couldn't find him in the characters, like, you know, from watching it as a fan when he plays different characters, you're always looking and going, oh yeah, you could tell it's, but in, in person there were times when I, I would spend, I thought one time that I had just spent 45 minutes talking to Eddie Murphy and, and found out later that it was actually the stunt double, and, and I had, had a deep conversation about my whole film career and, uh, you know.Īnyhow this stunt double had just put me in a couple movies and it was, it was disconcerting but it just shows you, how good the work was. You gotta step your game up, so everybody came to the plate with their A-game. So it's like going to the all-star game, you know, so you got the baddest cats from every team in one game. You got that many funny guns in the house, me, myself, Katt Williams, Marlon Wayans, you know, uh, Cuba Gooding Jr., you know, you, uh, it's a, it's a, it's a lot of gun slingers in the house. What was it like working with Eddie Griffin?Įddie Griffin: Uh, you know, uh, known the brother for about 17 years so finally working with the dude, you know, was like, uh, uh, you know, one of the highpoints in a brother's career, you know, 'cause you got a, a, a plethora of talent in this one film. the, uh, sandwich salad twist with the.Įddie Griffin: I don't know, when you see it, it's about five minutes and they kept all the food groups then bam, and then it's $14.95. Katt Williams: I was playing a sidekick, so I got to just repeat whatever he said, he like, what? I, what? And that was.Įddie Griffin: No, the soliloquy, dog when you threw down on the.Įddie Griffin. Katt Williams: But improv's a crazy thing.Įddie Griffin: You know, but it's a crazy thing, you either got it or you don't.Įddie Griffin: And, you know, if you don't, please just leave it alone, 'cause. Katt Williams: Yeah, it didn't work out so well.Įddie Griffin. Katt Williams: It was, it was, uh, probably the hardest piece I've ever worked on.Įddie Griffin: They wanna ask Murphy a question and said, uh, is it cool to adlib? He said, we didn't hire you all 'cause you ain't funny, he said, if it's funny, we'll keep it, and, uh, you know, he kept most if it, there was a couple of people that tried it and.
yeah, it was a seedy environment, the strip clubs.Įddie Griffin: I mean, the pimps, convention and. Katt Williams: It was a stretch for us, you know, we had to do a lot of research 'cause, you know, that, that world is so foreign to us, that whole pimp world, so it was, it was necessary that for, you know, a period of six months that we, um, dealt with the girls and.Įddie Griffin: That was a whole lot of, uh, rehearsing, man. And, uh, the entire neighborhood, basically, cares for Norbit because he's, you know, a, it's a big kid. uh, uh, uh, surrounds him, literally.Įddie Griffin: Uh, me and, uh, Katt Williams play, uh, Pope Sweet Jesus, and Lord Have Mercy, who are retired pimps that own a rib shack and all the ex-ho's are now waitresses. Eddie Griffin: Norbit is about, uh, Eddie Murphy, playing three characters, it's, uh, about a young man who's a child at heart, uh, uh, damn near mentally retarded, and he's surrounded by this huge woman, who.Įddie Griffin.
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