Blackfilm.com recently had the rare opportunity to watch the one and only Bernie Mac - in action- during a set visit to his upcoming film, currently titled "Guess Who", which also stars Ashton Kutcher.

The project is seen by many as a more lighthearted comedy remake of the Sidney Poitier classic "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner", a comparison Director Kevin Rodney Sullivan won't deny - "It's really inspired by it, but it's the same concept, and a good idea for a movie, I think, but it's forty years later. Some of the issues about interracial couples are still there; the challenges are still there, but it's a different time. I think that movie's intention was to explore America in 1967, and things were changing and it was a message piece. Our movie is more character driven than that".

Mac's involvement was more about the quality of the story - "I didn't want to do a remake of something that awesome, and when they came to me, I said if you're not going to do it right, I'm not going to do it.' I'm not going to disrespect Sidney, Katharine or Spencer, because that was just awesome in terms of the acting. When I got the script, the script was booty. The script was awful, and that really helped me determine whether or not to make a remake. I said no, so we really started hustling to put the script together, and then they brought it to me and said that Ashton wanted to do it, and I wanted to work with him because he came and played with me on the show, which was a beautiful thing.

He and I met, and we were talking about how we saw the film, and it was ironic because he and I saw the film the exact same way. I did not want to make anything buffoonish, and I did not want to make anything over the top or under the bottom, and when you come out being a lead, you know, especially for me, how you start is how you finish. My main goal was to really show people exactly who I am...Me, I'm going to be myself 24 hours a day; I'm not coming out of my picture frame for nothin', and yesterday I had a scene, and there's always one scene, that troubled me, because we changed it. Ashton rewrote it and made an adjustment for me, because I didn't want to do a dick joke; it's a cheap laugh. So Ashton came up with a great [alternative], but it troubled me because I got stuck and I told my script supervisor that rule number one that I've always made is to be myself. I wasn't myself; I got caught up that quick in the transition and the adjustments, and I'll never ever do that again. My point is that every day, there is always learning, and I learned something about myself".

For heaps more from the cast, click here.

Thanks to 'Wilson'