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August 10, 2002
Hey Everyone,
I'm
on location in Atlanta shooting a film for Paramount Pictures.It's called The Fighting Temptations.It stars Cuba Gooding Jr.,
Beyonce Knowles (Destiny's Child), The OJ’s, Melba Moore and some of the best Gospel singers in the business.
We all seem to be having just a little too much fun.
I shot one of the key scenes in the film with Cuba. I play this redneck pig farmer. I make a deal to get Cuba to go
in the pig sty to try and move this big sow.
He can't budge her so I go in and help. With both of us behind the pig, the big sow bolts, landing Cuba in his
white suit and me face down in the mud. As we get up I start laughing Cuba comes back and shoves me back down in
the mud
The director, Jonathon Lynn, almost fell on the ground.One of the producers came to me and said, "That is too funny
not to show up in the trailer!
April will have photos and updates as the shooting continues.
 Micky getting his make-up sprayed on!
The Fighting Tempations Distributor: Paramount Films (MTV Films) Production Company: Handprint Entertainment, MTV Films (Kings of Comedy, Varsity Blues, The Wood)
Cast: Cuba
Gooding Jr.,Mickey Jones, Mike Epps, Steve Harvey, Beyonce Knowles, Rue
McClanahan, Wendell Pierce Screenwriter: Elizabeth Hunter (debut) (first draft); rewrite by Rick Famuyiwa (The Wood; cowriter of Brown Sugar); rewrite by David Raynor (debut)
Premise: A hip-hop producer, Darrin (Gooding), from New York
is called back to his Georgia hometown when his wealthy aunt dies, to collect a
sizeable inheritance. The catch? He has to form a gospel choir, and lead them to
success, to collect it. (Epps plays Darren's "country boy" cousin who shows him
around town)
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