"Sidney Poitier said, 'You are not Denzel [Washington], and you are not Morgan [Freeman]. You are a breath of fresh air, and ...

“They were talking about doing ‘Malcolm X,’” Murphy said. “Norman Jewison was putting it together. They were going to use ‘The Autobiography of Malcolm X’ by Alex Haley, and they ...

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The film was first directed by Norman Jewison, the director of Poitier's In the Heat of the Night, who cast Denzel Washington in the starring role before Spike Lee took over as director.

“They were talking about doing Malcolm X [and] Norman Jewison (who directed Fiddler on the Roof and Moonstruck) was putting it together,” he recalled. “They were gonna use The ...

"It was like… They were talking about doing Malcolm X. Norman Jewison was putting it together, and they were gonna use The Autobiography of Malcolm X by [Roots author] Alex Haley. And they ...

"I didn't know if it was an insult or a compliment," Murphy said of Poitier's comment. "I was like, 'What?'"Eddie Murphy is ...