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The Nutty Professor: Directed by Tom Shadyac. With Eddie Murphy, Jada Pinkett Smith, James Coburn, Larry Miller. Grossly overweight yet good-hearted professor Sherman Klump takes a special chemical that turns him into the slim but obnoxious Buddy Love.
Jun 28, 1996 · The Nutty Professor: Directed by Tom Shadyac. With Eddie Murphy, Jada Pinkett Smith, James Coburn, Larry Miller. Grossly overweight yet good-hearted professor Sherman Klump takes a special chemical that turns him into the slim but obnoxious Buddy Love.
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- Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
- Tom Shadyac
- 1996-06-28
- The Film Is Based on The 1963 Jerry Lewis Comedy of The Same name.
- The Weight Loss Storyline Was Inspired by Daytime Television.
- Lewis Served as Executive Producer on The 1996 Version of The Nutty Professor.
- But It Turns Out Lewis Isn’T Really A Fan of Murphy’s Version.
- Director Tom Shadyac Wasn’T Murphy’s Original Choice…
- … But He Seemed to Have The Magic Touch.
- Eddie Murphy Plays A Total of Seven Characters in The Film.
- There’S A Story Behind Dave Chappelle’s Character’S name.
- Jada Pinkett Smith Chose The Nutty Professor Over Independence Day.
- A Lot of Work Went Into Those Crazy Dinner Scenes.
The Jekyll and Hyde-like storylines are mostly the same in both films, as is the name of the protagonist’s alter ego (Buddy Love). However, while Eddie Murphy’s Sherman Klump wants to lose weight, Jerry Lewis’ character wants to bulk up to become a jock.
Murphy allegedly came up with the weight loss theme of the movie while watching a daytime chat show’s segment on the topic.
He also executive produced its sequel, 2000’s The Nutty Professor 2: The Klumps, and would go on to produce and star in a computer-animated sequel to his original film—also called The Nutty Professor—in 2008.
He’s quoted as saying, “I have such respect for Eddie, but I should not have done it. What I did was perfect the first time around, and all you’re going to do is diminish that perfection by letting someone else do it.”
Murphy and the producers wanted famed director John Landis to direct The Nutty Professor. Landis had worked previously with Murphy on the filmsTrading Places, Coming to America, and Beverly Hills Cop III.
The Nutty Professor was the second in a string of four consecutive comedies directed by Shadyac to gross more than $100 million worldwide. The other films were Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Liar Liar, and Patch Adams.
He plays every member of the Klump family except for Ernie Klump Jr., the nephew who is played by actor Jamal Mixon, as well as the Richard Simmons lookalike, Lance Perkins.
The rude comic played by Chappelle is named Reggie Warrington after director Reginald Hudlin and his brother Warrington. Eddie Murphy allegedly had a falling out with the brothers after appearing in 1992’s Boomerang, which Reginald directed and Warrington produced.
Pinkett Smith, who plays Carla Purty, wasn’t able to star in Independence Day with her then-boyfriend (and now-husband) Will Smith because she had already accepted her role in The Nutty Professor.
To make the Klump family dinner table scenes work seamlessly, Murphy performed each role one at a time. While filming each new character, he would use an earpiece that played audio of himself as the Klump family members he’d already shot. He repeated this process for days until the entire scene was complete with each family member’s dialogue.
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