The Dolemite Is My Name audition came to Da'Vine Joy Randolph in 2018 like countless others had — with little time to prepare and virtually no information about the project. The Tony nominee (for Ghost the Musical) and Yale School of Drama grad did not know, for instance, that the movie was a passion project Eddie Murphy had been trying to get made for years, that he was set to star as 1970s comedian Rudy Roy Moore alongside a who's-who of black comedic stars (Wesley Snipes, Chris Rock, Tituss Burgess). She did know, however, that the part she was ...
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