- Ability over Appearance: Eddie Murphy doesn't look or sound anything like the real Rudy Ray Moore, but he still embodies Moore’s charisma and charm.
- Career Resurrection: This, alongside 2016's Mr Church, help to revive Eddie Murphy's career following the colossal bomb that was 2012's A Thousand Words. Murphy also won the Razzie Redeemer Award (after being nominated for, and in some cases winning, Worst Actor in the 2000's and winning Worst Actor of the Decade in 2010) for his role in the film.
- Dawson Casting:
- A 57-year old Eddie Murphy plays Rudy Ray Moore, who was in his mid-to-late 40s throughout the movie. Luelle, who plays Rudy's aunt, is only 6 years older than Murphy.
- Wesley Snipes was 56 when he played the 35-year old D'Urville Martin.
- Fake American:
- Serbian Aleksandr Filimonovic as Joseph Bihari, who was of Hungarian Jewish descent.
- Australian Kodi Smit-McPhee as Nicholas Josef von Sternberg.
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