Coming 2 America: Director Craig Brewer on Easter Eggs and Going to Prince’s Oscar Party

With Coming 2 America now streaming on Amazon Prime Video, I recently had the chance to speak with Craig Brewer about directing the long-awaited sequel. During the interview, he talked about how they decided on the PG-13 rating, Easter eggs, if he had a longer cut and deleted scenes, if Soul Glo was ever going to be a bigger part of the sequel, how Eddie Murphy asked him to direct the sequel, and a lot more. In addition, he talked about what it was like watching Three 6 Mafia win an Oscar for Hustle and Flow and shares a fantastic story about going to Prince’s Oscar party that night. In the Coming to America sequel, Murphy’s Prince Akeem is living a happy life in Zamunda with his Coming to America sweetheart, Lisa (Shari Headley), and his three daughters. But when he finds out that he might have a son he didn’t know about living in New York City (Jermaine Fowler), and that only a male heir can take over the Zamundan throne, Akeem and Semmi (Arsenio Hall) set off on a journey to America to discover the