Meanwhile, Hall has worked with Lee four times, on both Best Man movies, Barbershop: The Next Cut and Girls Trip.Ģ0. "Ībout filmmakers in general, "I think their partners' influence is gigantic," Hall observed, "and so, when I met Malcolm Lee, and finally I met Cami-Camille, his wife-she was like, 'I loved you in it! I saw your tape and I was like, Malcolm, that's her!'" Cami apparently thought Hall's amateur dance was "endearing." Asked to explain, she said, "I think men take those tapes home and go, 'Honey, what do you think?' I think the wife goes," she scrunched up her face, "'I don't like her.' And I don't think they mean that from a bad way, I think they're talking about energetically and what would serve. "I realize, in every role I got, I swear, it's always the wife that casts you," she reflected in 2018 to Elvis Mitchell at Film Independent's We the People summit about how her role in The Best Man came about. Hall has a theory about male filmmakers and the role their partners play in casting women in their films. "She was totally horrible to me," Hall said, "but she was great." The woman had Hall come to her mirror-lined apartment in Brooklyn and told her to pick out an outfit from the array of racks on display and dance till she turned herself on-and then pretend to dance for a cute guy she'd potentially date.ġ3. She got the role and two days before go-time the choreographer (who managed strippers) warned her that she was going to suck. But she went in, grabbed a chair, turned around, looked behind her and gave her butt a slap, as planned." Producer Sam Kitt had them stop the music and asked her, "'Can you do anything else?' And I said yes and I picked up my jacket and was like, 'Thank you.' And I left!" "All I had was one move!" Hall exclaimed. When she came in, the other girls were practicing choreographed routines. She told her boyfriend to wait in the car, figuring it wouldn't take long because she didn't have much to show off. They won't know.'"īefore the audition she drank a bottle of Alize, and couldn't figure out why she was still sober. "I couldn't dance," Hall recalled her audition during a Q&A at the LA Film Festival in 2018, ".and one of the girls in my acting class, she was a stripper, she said, 'you don't have to do anything.you just have to turn around and slap your ass. Regina Hall's turn as Candy, the bachelor party stripper who captures Harold Perrineau's heart, like, immediately, marked her feature debut. Here are 20 important things to know about The Best Man:ĥ. Sure enough, The Best Man is about regular (albeit really good-looking) people and their careers, their success and failures, their struggles an insecurities, their romantic entanglements and their sex drives.Īnd though certain aspects of the film firmly root it in the 1990s, the themes-friendship, fidelity, faith, forgiveness and powering through when you feel ready to give up-still resonate 20 years later. Taye Diggs, the titular best man Harper, said that in the late '90s he was simply looking to be in movies "where you just see African American people being people, as opposed to stereotypes." "Hollywood needed to see that we were more than drug dealers and baby mamas," Nia Long, who played maid of honor Jordan, told Brian Raftery for his 2019 book Best. So much so that, as Pop Matters pointed out in 2013, The Best Man may have started something, but the sequel The Best Man Holiday had "to play catch-up to madwo(man) Madea and the gang," referring to the by-then booming entertainment empire presided over by Tyler Perry.
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