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Cara Silverman. Robi Reed. Bill Carraro. Sam Kitt. Spike Lee. Stanley Clarke. Malcolm D. Lee. After writing a soon-to-be bestselling novel, writer and committed bachelor Harper attempts to hide the fact that his saucy new book is loosely based on the lives and loves of his tight-knit group of friends. Harper is set to be best man at his friend ...
Dec 22, 2022 · The cast of the beloved rom-com series The Best Man is reuniting for one last ride on the new Peacock miniseries The Best Man: The Final Chapters, which premieres Dec. 22.
- Other Big Names Wanted Roles
- Terrence Howard's Memorable Audition
- Regina Hall Walked Out of Her Audition and Still Landed The Part
- One Game-Changing Song and Dance
- The Studio Was Nervous About The Card Table Scene
- Written For Will and Jada?!
- Famous Fans of The Franchise
- The Aaliyah Number That Almost Was
- Stars Who Did Their Own Stunts
- The Best Man's Impact
The Best Man franchise has a core cast of iconic actors, including Long, Diggs and Lathan, who deliver unforgettable chemistry. "Here were eight roles for Black actors to play non-stereotypical roles and so the community was really excited about engaging in this project," explains Lee. As a result many actors auditioned to play Jordan, Lance, Harpe...
Diggs remembers when he read with Terrence Howardvery well. The actor, who would end up being cast as Quentin opposite Diggs, brought his own props to the audition, including a guitar. "I remember in the scene he took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth. I was like 'Okay. This is someone who speaks my language because he was doing his own thing...
Candace makes a grand entrance during Lance's bachelor party as Candy, but for Hall getting that sequence right was a journey. Hall knew she wasn't a great dancer, so she walked out of the dance at the audition. "I remember I was in school with this girl who was like 'All you gotta do is smack your ass, and I was like 'That's it?' so I went into th...
With one dance scene, The Best Mangave us a cultural phenomenon. During Lance and Mia's wedding reception, the party broke out into the Electric Slide while "Candy" by Cameo played as the credits began to roll, and Black weddings have not been the same since. Lee shares that he would see people do the Electric Slide to Marcia Griffiths and Bunny Wa...
Harper (Diggs), Quentin (Howard), Lance (Chestnut), and Murch's (Harold Perrineau) deep friendship was encapsulated during the The Best Man's well-known card table scene. "The studio was very nervous about it, but this was the central story of the guy's friendship," Lee shares. The scene involves the four characters playing cards at a table while r...
"Will [Smith] said in an article around that time that there was such a dearth of Black roles in Hollywood and he couldn't even get a movie with his wife," Lee recalls about initially writing The Best Manfor Will and Jada Pinkett Smith. The filmmaker shares that after telling Smith in-person, the two got to hang out for a while after that.
The Best Man franchise was unlike a lot of the stories in the world about Black people, so it's not surprising that the franchise has its own celebrity fans. Jamie Foxx and Whitney Houston were among the stars who shared their excitement about the film with Lee. "Michael Jackson wanted to do a song for The Best Man. I talked to him on the phone and...
The men dancing to "Can You Stand the Rain?" is one of The Best Man franchise's most iconic moments, but the women almost had their own musical moment in The Best Man Holiday. "It was written into the script," Lee says about a performance that almost was," It was gonna be to Aaliyah's 'One in a Million' and we did a table read of it." The budget wa...
Shelby (Melissa De Sousa) and Candy (Hall) got into quite the tussle in The Best Man Holiday, and the actresses did their own stunts. "I remember that Melissa and I wanted to do it. We had stunt doubles, but we were like 'Let us do it'," Hall shares. It was a comedic fight scene, but it was still Hall's first. As with any fight, it was coordinated,...
While Lee and the stars have stories about how The Best Man franchise impacted them, the franchise's creator remembers one tangible example. "Clint Culpepper, the guy running Screen Gems, said to me personally that The Best Man was the reason he was able to make as many movies about the Black experience as he was," he shares. Lee also remembers spe...
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The Best Man: The Final Chapters: Created by Malcolm D. Lee, Dayna Lynne North. With Morris Chestnut, Melissa De Sousa, Regina Hall, Terrence Howard. As relationships evolve and past grievances resurface in the unpredictable stages of midlife crisis meets midlife renaissance.
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Nov 21, 2022 · The 2013 sequel, “The Best Man Holiday,” showed the same cast all grown up and more established but reckoning with some uncovered secrets of their past. Nia Long as Jordan, Melissa De Sousa as ...
