“I just kept attacking Edgar in a very friendly way,” Murphy tells EW.
“Finally, he was like, ‘I get it; I’ll do it.'”
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He eventually landed on the 43-year-old actress.
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“Ricky really fought for it.
He wanted to do something dramatic and different,” says Murphy of the 46-year-old singer.
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“Darren can and has successfully done sexualized, darker parts.
I was like, ‘I think that can be interesting.'”
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