Folks keep emailing me and asking me who Eddie was playing in Dreamgirls. Here's the answer according to the Los Angeles Daily News...Character: James "Thunder" Early (Eddie Murphy)
Real-life counterpart: Jackie Wilson/James Brown with a dash of Marvin Gaye
Backstory: Early mixes the 1950s R&B of Wilson with 1960s soul power of Brown, with results that will be familiar to anyone who saw Murphy's Godfather of Soul sketches on "Saturday Night Live." Later, when Early attempts a social-message record a la Gaye's "What's Going On," he wears the same kind of crocheted hat that Gaye favored at the time.
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