Coming 2 America Almost Had A Cameo By The Nutty Professor Family The Klumps

By Ethan Anderton/March 4, 2021 4:30 pm EST

Having not seen Coming 2 America yet, I’m not sure if there’s still a circumcision scene in the movie or if that’s something that got cut entirely. But the idea of The Klumps attending a scene like that in Coming 2 America certainly feels like it would have been a bit too much. While Murphy is outstanding as those characters, it sounds like their appearance would have been a little too forced. Plus, in addition to the make-up costs, simply shooting the scene with Eddie Murphy as five more characters would have taken a lot of time and effort. It probably would have made for some great riffing on set though, so we’re somewhat disappointed it didn’t happen.

“There was a scene in Coming 2 America we just did. There was a scene where the Klumps, remember the circumcision scene? Originally, the Klumps kind of popped up in that scene. In the long run, it was too hard a left, and it would have been too expensive to do. So yeah, they were in this thing.”

This wouldn’t have been the first time Coming to America created a bit of a cinematic universe for Eddie Murphy. Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy are seen in the original comedy as Mortimer and Randolph Duke from Trading Places. Now poor and out on their asses thanks to Billy Ray Valentine (Eddie Murphy) and Louis Winthorpe III (Dan Aykroyd), their luck turns around when Prince Akeem gives them a bag full of cash, and they’re back in business.