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Arsenio Hall And Eddie Murphy Reveals Paramount Forced Them In ‘Coming to America’ to Include a White Actor Because the Entire Cast Was Black. Eddie Murphy: “I loved Louie, but I figured we were forced to put Louie in it.” “I think we were forced to put a white person.” Arsenio Hall: “Paramount was like, ‘The whole cast is black, and this was back in the eighties. We have to have a white person. There has to be a white person in the movie.’” “So it was, ‘Who’s the funniest white guy around?’ And then Louie, we knew him, he was cool with him, and so that’s how Louie got in the movie.” Eddie Murphy: “And in fact, it was official. I had a list. They gave me a list with three white guys, and they said, ‘Who would you rather work with?’” Jimmy Kimmel: “Do you remember the other two?” Arsenio Hall: “Oh, yeah, but I can’t say.”