Sean “Diddy” Combs auditioned to play James Brown in the 2014 Universal biopic “Get on Up,” it was revealed in the hip-hop mogul’s sex trafficking trial. The part ultimately went to ...

Sean “Diddy” Combs auditioned to play James Brown in the 2014 Universal biopic “Get on Up,” it was revealed in the hip-hop mogul’s sex trafficking trial. The part ultimately went to ...

Sean 'Diddy' Combs auditioned to play James Brown in the biopic 'Get on Up,' a witness in his trial revealed. He lost the part to Chadwick Boseman.

Sean “Diddy” Combs auditioned to play James Brown in the 2014 Universal biopic “Get on Up,” it was revealed in the hip-hop mogul’s sex trafficking trial. The part ultimately went to ...

Murphy told Fallon he always pictured Brown driving around down south looking for the money he buried in different places. “Pull the car over,” he’d tell his driver.

But, he said portraying James Brown was a different test of will. “If I finished at an easy day, I would say, ‘That would be the hardest scene we would do on another movie,’” he said.