PR.com: I was watching some clips of your movie, The Perfect Holiday, and I noticed that your character in the movie, J Jizzy, has his own MySpace page. Are you doing something else with that character?

Charlie Murphy: That’s some kind of marketing they’re doing. The character of J Jizzy, they want to do another movie on him. That’s why he has a MySpace page and he has a [music] video.

PR.com: As soon as I saw the MySpace page I knew they were doing something else with that character. The music video is absolutely hysterical. I watched the J Jizzy music video over and over and over… and I couldn’t get the song out of my head!

Charlie Murphy: (Charlie breaks into character and sings J Jizzy’s Christmas song for my benefit.) Jing-gle all the wa-ey-ey (laughs).

PR.com: (Laughs) Last night I was singing it over and over. I was like, “I can’t get this f-ing song out of my head.” What attracted you to doing The Perfect Holiday?

Charlie Murphy: Oh, the cast. That was the first draw. When you have Queen Latifah and Terrence Howard in the same film and you have the opportunity to be in it, it’s like, come on man. Those are the people that everybody’s fawning over right now. I would love to be in the film with them. And then I heard about Gabrielle [Union] and Morris [Chestnut], and Katt Williams, who’s one of my favorite comedians. I was like, “Hey man, there’s no way we can lose with this.” And I jumped right over there.

PR.com: Is your character a parody of P. Diddy?

Charlie Murphy: No. He’s a parody of their position. P. Diddy is not the only person who’s a mogul and owns multiple business ventures. There’s several guys like that, that fit that description now. So you can’t say that he’s P. Diddy. He’s all of them. J Jizzy’s not a P. Diddy impression. He’s his own dude.

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