We chat with YouPeople star Eddie Murphy about how comedy makes tough topics more palatable, and what it was like working with Kenya Barris as a director instead of a writer:
You People is a modern take on the romantic comedy, exploring questions of race, faith, cultural differences, societal expectations, and generational expectations. You People follows Ezra on his search for love and podcast success when a chance encounter with Amira brings unexpected happiness into his life. The pair fall in love and begin a relationship that leads to an engagement, but the joy of this is threatened when they introduce their parents.
Eddie Murphy: Comedy makes anything go down easy. If you have something serious, you could get your point across and have a sense of humor about it. Even public speakers, anything—if you throw some comedy in it, it makes it easy to digest. And this movie? Most romantic comedies don't have race, there's nothing about any race or anything like that in it.
Eddie Murphy: Well, a writer is contributing to making a film, just like the actors. The one that makes the movie is a director. Directors make movies, and they make them half on the set, actually. Not even half on the set. 20% of it is on the set, and 80% of it is in the editing room. The director and the editor make movies.
Eddie Murphy: Jonah really is Ezra. He knows all hip hop music, and he knows the Black culture, and he has all of that stuff that was real. He was mentioning stuff I don't even know about.
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