that he realized he needed her to play his onscreen other half, an aspiring New York singer."The movie needed her," Crystal says.
"When I saw her -- the charm, how funny she was, how fearless she was, her natural personality -- the movie was not set up then, and I said, 'We have to get this to her. This is for her,'" he recalls."And then when I read about her past, about performing at bat mitzvahs and bar mitzvahs and stuff-- We had written a scene where her character, Emma, sings a Janis Joplin song at a bar mitzvah, so to me, this was destiny. It was meant to be.
Crystal sent the script to Haddish, who was in Africa at the time."First of all, I love Billy Crystal," she reveals of her reaction to him reaching out."Like this is--" she pantomimes her mind being blown. She read the screenplay and told her people to tell his people to get a meeting on the schedule as soon as possible.
"I get back and I take braids out, right? And they're like, 'Oh, he wants to meet on this day.' I'm like, 'Oh my goodness. Do I press it? Do I put a wig on it?" Haddish remembers."I was just like, 'You know what? I'm walking in with an afro. No makeup. He's gonna just see me the way that I am. If he likes me, great. Fantastic.
As Crystal remembers it,"The charming, beautiful host that I had seen was so funny was even more interesting and charming and challenging in person. And I went, 'This is the character. She has got to do this.' And I even said to her, 'It's important that you do this,'" he shares."And I wasn't selling. I felt like I wanted to say that to her. 'This is a special movie for you.
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