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.

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As Murphy, 63, reveals in the new two-episode Apple TV+ documentary Number One on the Call Sheet, he was advised by none other than Oscar-winning Hollywood legend Sidney Poitier to do just that ...

Sidney Poitier (left) and Eddie Murphy.