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She explains that she was offered the part without an audition as Payne had seen her opposite Eddie Murphy in Dolemite. "His theory is that he prefers to work with people with comedic chops, because he feels more comfortable that they can pull out the dramatics, but not necessarily, in his opinion, the other way around."