- Title: USA: AMERICAN FILM PREMIERE OF COMEDY MOVIE " KINGDOM COME"
- Date: 1st April 2001
- Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA (RECENT) (REUTERS) SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) ACTRESS JADA PINKETT SMITH SAYING: "It's anybody's family and the writer wrote this script based upon his family which is a white family he didn't write it for an African-American family so that just goes to show you that it is universal, dealing with family is universal."
- Embargoed: 16th April 2001 13:00
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- Location: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES/VARIOUS FILM LOCATIONS
- Country: USA
- Reuters ID: LVA5IET40P9GYJU9UZ4SXMY9104T
- Story Text: "Kingdom Come" tells the story about the trials and tribulations experience by one family as they gather to remember and bury their patriarch, Woodrow "Daddy Bud"
Slocumb. It's stars Whoopi Goldberg and LL Cool J.
The best and the worst of the Slocumb family are on display when Woodrow "Bud" Slocumb keels over from a stroke.
As the town swelters in the summer heat, family tensions reach a comedic boil as the Slocumb clan comes together to remember their dearly departed.
The long-suffering Charisse (Jada Pinkett Smith) is sick of her bumbling, unfaithful husband Junior (Anthony Anderson).
The scripture-spouting Marguerite (Loretta Devine) prays to save her hard-living son Royce (Darius McCrary) whose chief ambition is a life on welfare. Family peacekeeper Lucille (Vivica A. Fox) has her hands full with a money hungry funeral director and her husband Ray Bud (LL Cool J) who would rather bury his family than his father. As the Slocumbs squabble and fight their way to the funeral, they discover new ways to define the term 'dysfunctional.' Jada Pinkett Smith told Reuters television the important issue in the film is family not race.
"It's anybodys family and the writer wrote this script based upon his family which is a white family he didn't write it for an African-American family so that just goes to show you that it is universal, dealing with family is universal."
When Reverend Hooker (Cedric the Entertainer) threatens to derail the burial with a bad case of intestinal trouble; Ray Bud finds that "Daddy Bud" has a valuable lesson to teach them all before they lower him into the ground. Cedric the Entertainer developed a lisp for the character.
"I want the guy to be taken seriously as an intergrable part of the movie. He was there for what? To make him a small town preacher that was sincere but he had the speech impediment."
Cedric based his portrayal of the religious man loosely on a minister he once saw. He said it wasn't that difficult to speak with a lisp.
"Kingdom Come" stars LL Cool J, Jada Pinkett Smith, Vivica A. Fox, Loretta Devine, Anthony Anderson, Toni Braxton, Cedric the Entertainer, Darius McCrary, Masasa, and Whoopi Goldberg.
At the world premiere of "Kingdom Come" film star and rapper LL Cool J said acting was something he was taking seriously.
"I think this will show people I'm really serious as an actor that I'm really focused on acting and I think people will really enjoy it." LL Cool J said.
"Kingdom Come" opens in theaters throughout the United States on Friday, April 6th. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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