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Surprisingly, Thompson was not the original actor cast as Fat Albert, nor was it thought that the project would ever be completed after Cosby and original director Forest Whitaker fell apart over creative differences...
Calling his manager, who had once represented Whitaker, Thompson was able to secure a second, more favorable audition. The second time around, final casting for the role of Fat Albert came down to Thompson and Omar Benson Miller (8 Mile, Sorority Boys), with the part eventually going to the latter. Thompson explains that Fat Albert is the biggest and tallest member of his gang, and that Miller, who stands at 6’5”, is easily the larger...
Thompson remembers how he made a special audition tape for Cosby. “The legend is that [Cosby] watched, like, twenty seconds of it and just gave me the job,” says the Fat Albert star...
Cosby, who voiced many of the characters in the Fat Albert cartoon, gave Thompson relative freedom with personalizing characterization: he did not even coach on how to deliver the Albert tagline, “Hey, hey, hey, it’s Fat Albert...
...know that Fat Albert is a clean thing, and it’s a Cosby thing, and I wouldn’t want to do anything to tarnish it, but I want also to be free to do whatever is funny for me,” says Thompson...