Ruth E. Carter Connected With Eddie Murphy on Seventies Style for ‘Dolemite Is My Name’

While working on “Dolemite Is My Name,” the new film starring Eddie Murphy that comes to Netflix today, costume designer Ruth E. Carter looked back at her own coming-of-age in the Seventies. Any costumer will tell you: There’s some amount of research involved in all the projects they take on for television shows or movies — especially if they’re period pieces. But for Carter, most of the work began inside the walls of her own mind.  “I like to say that I remember,” Carter says. It’s 5 a.m. in Los Angeles, where she’s been on the lot for her next project, “Coming 2 America” (also starring Murphy), for the past two hours already. “Because I do remember it.” Craig Robinson, Mike Epps, Tituss Burgess, Eddie Murphy and Da’Vine Joy Randolph.  François Duhamel/NETFLIX The costume designer known for her work on “Do the Right Thing” and “Black Panther,” (which led to her historic Oscars win as the first black woman to take home the best costume design award), recalls in colorful detail her teenage years growing up as a, in her words, “very daring, kind of fast” kid in Springfield, Mass. “I had five brothers and two sisters who were all older than me. So right at

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