The end of an era is upon us.
In 2013, the group returned for the beloved sequelThe Best Man Holiday.
Terrence Howard’s memorable audition
Diggs remembers when he read withTerrence Howardvery well.
Malcolm D. Lee directing ‘The Best Man Holiday’.Everett Collection
“I remember in the scene he took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth.
I was like ‘Okay.
This is someone who speaks my language because he was doing his own thing,” Diggs recalls.
Terrence Dashon Howard, Taye Diggs, Morris Chestnut, and Harold Perrineau in ‘The Best Man’.Everett Collection
“I got so upset I remember hitting the cigarette out of his mouth and he laughed.
He made the laugh work within the scene.”
Hall knew she wasn’t a great dancer, so she walked out of the dance at the audition.
Taye Diggs and Nia Long in ‘The Best Man’.Everett Collection
so I went into the audition and did that.
I remember they stopped the music and said, can you do anything else?’
I said thank you, took my coat, and left," she shares.
“That’s probably when I fell into not thinking about the moves so much,” Hall explains.
All that work prepared Hall for her first day and the iconic scene fans ofThe Best Manremember very well.
One game-changing song and dance
With one dance scene,The Best Mangave us a cultural phenomenon.
and I just told them to trust me," he recalls.
The added challenge for Hall was that she didn’t know the Electric Slide before making the movie.
“Saana [Lathan] taught me that,” she reveals.
Chestnut admits that one thing the four men weren’t doing was actually playing Spades.
Written for WIll and Jada?!
Jamie Foxx and Whitney Houston were among the stars who shared their excitement about the film with Lee.
“Michael Jackson wanted to do a song forThe Best Man.
I talked to him on the phone and said he wanted to do it,” Lee shares.
Another huge fan of the first film was Prince who Lee screened the film for in Minneapolis.
“He was cackling like crazy watching the movie,” the writer-director shares.
The Aaliyah number that almost was
The men dancing to “Can You Stand the Rain?”
“I remember that Melissa and I wanted to do it.
We had stunt doubles, but we were like ‘Let us do it’,” Hall shares.
It was a comedic fight scene, but it was still Hall’s first.
As with any fight, it was coordinated, but the actresses wanted it to feel real.
“The Best Manis aspirational,” he shares.
The Best Man: The Final Chapterspremieres on Peacock Dec. 22.
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