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GOSSIP & RUMORS: How Lisa Lisa missed out on being Eddie Murphy’s love interest in ‘Coming to America’ – U-S-NEWS.COM

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Eighties music icon Lisa Lisa portrayed her own mother in her recent Lifetime biopic “Can You Feel the Beat: The Lisa Lisa Story.” But she almost made an even splashier acting turn as Eddie Murphy’s love interest — who also just so happened to be named Lisa — in the 1988 classic “Coming to America.” “That was crazy,” Lisa Velez, 59, told The Post about almost getting her big-screen close-up three years after breaking out with 1985’s “I Wonder If…
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GOSSIP & RUMORS: How Lisa Lisa missed out on being Eddie Murphy’s love interest in ‘Coming to America’ – U-S-NEWS.COM

Eighties music icon Lisa Lisa portrayed her own mother in her recent Lifetime biopic “Can You Feel the Beat: The Lisa Lisa Story.” But she almost made an even splashier acting turn as Eddie Murphy’s love interest — who also just so happened to be named Lisa — in the 1988 classic “Coming to America.” “That was crazy,” Lisa Velez, 59, told The Post about almost getting her big-screen close-up three years after breaking out with 1985’s “I Wonder If…

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