When Tiffany Haddish first met with Billy Crystal to discuss a comedic team-up for the touching dramedy Here Today, the two agreed they felt an instant connection. The Girls Trip star noted feeling…
star noted feeling nervous over the meeting, as she had just returned to Africa and taken her braids out. “Should I press it? Should I put a wig on it?” she remembers asking herself, before deciding that she’d go into the meeting “as regular ol’ Tiffany. He’s going to see an afro, he’s going to see no makeup.
And if it doesn’t work, at least I got to meet him!”scribe Alan Zweibel, says before meeting Haddish he had wondered who could play the “special part” of Emma Payge, a New York singer who forms an unlikely yet heartfelt friendship with aging comedy writer Charle Berns going through the early stages of dementia. hosting gig, he knew he needed to send a script over and see if the two would click.. “As we he was trying to tell me about it, I’m like, you don’t have to do all of this talking.
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