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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During an interview for Apple TV+’s “Number One on the Call Sheet: Black Leading Men in Hollywood,” Murphy revealed he bumped into Poitier and brought up that he had been approached to play ...

Murphy continued: “Around the same time, I bumped into Sidney Poitier at something and I asked him, ‘Yeah, I’m thinking about playing Alex Hayley.’ Poitier said, ‘You are not Denzel ...

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Eddie Murphy is reflecting on puzzling career advice he received from Sidney Poitier. The Beverly Hills Cop star recalled an interaction that he had with the legendary In the Heat of the Night ...

And Sidney Poitier said [talks with Poitier's accent], ‘You are not Denzel, and you are not Morgan. You are a breath of fresh air. And don’t fuck with that.’ ...

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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.