'Coming 2 America' costume designer Ruth E. Carter on modernizing Zamunda: 'This is our vision of royalty'

The Washington Post: In the late ’80s, Ruth E. Carter was designing costumes for Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing” when a high-profile visitor showed up to the now-iconic film’s Brooklyn set. It was comedian Eddie Murphy. “He was already a big movie star, an icon,” Carter recalls. “And we were like, ‘Wow, that’s Eddie Murphy. He just did that funny film, “Coming to America.” ’ ”