Eddie Murphy Talks BEVERLY HILLS COP, Sylvester Stallone and Nearly Being a GHOSTBUSTER | Interview

I'm going to put a banana in your tail pipe I'm just burning doing a neutron day you Eddie we're going we don't need Rose Mr Murphy honor to see you again sir yeah man come please call me Eddie Eddie my good friend Eddie good to see you again just call me Eddie Mr Murphy make me feel old when they say Mr Murphy the very last time I went out to a nightclub that's why I stopped going to clubs I was in the club and the girl was going past she said excuse me Mr Murphy and I was like you know what it's over all right we're going to bring it back Eddie good to see you again Eddie good to see you I'd love to go back to the beginning before you were ever axle you were that close to being a Ghostbuster and I would love to know how far you got in the process of figuring out who your Ghostbuster was going to be before Axel came along uh go it was really simple I was to do Ghostbusters but act Beverly Hills Cop was a leading role and and Ghostbusters was like an ensemble thing and I was be one of the guys so we went with Beverly Hills Cop and I had never done you know I'd never been the the lead guy so right well I think you made the right choice I think cuz Ghostbusters a really classic I would love at best I would love to have been in both of them yeah they're still they're still making them man yeah but I'm back then that would have been cool if they been Ghostbusters and Beverly C that been ah they would have shot a rocket off my y you know one of my favorite sort of pieces of trivia is that you guys Nam drop Sylvester Stallone a lot throughout this series and for people that know the history behind it they know that Stallone was going to be Axel what do you think the Sylvester Stallone Axel Foley would have been like nothing like Axel Foley I'm going to put a banana in your tailpipe been menacing he'd have been mean with it was like you going to follow me I'm going to put a banana in your tail p no funniness because he didn't want to be funny right he wanted it to be it would have been like you know he did a movie what was the name of that movie he did not Cobra Cobra that I kind of think Cobra he took his what he was going to do with Beverly Hills Cop and did and did Cobra I got to tell you I think the axle F theme is one of the greatest themes in the history of movies oh yeah great music it's so good I'm sort of curious as an actor do you know when you're shooting a scene on set do they come over and say hey we're going to play the theme in this moment is it so none of the needle drop Pointer Sisters OR or GL none of them you don't know what music they're going to eat would you want to know would you want to know like hey heads up they're going to do the actual F theme right here no yeah I like I only want to know what's going on right in the scene not what they're going to put in after it and all that stuff because they don't know that till they get in and do try different different stuff it would be if I was thinking that it might affect how I walked or what I was playing the scene I walk in the room and I'm thinking I'm just burning doing a neutron day I got as someone who walks around Chicago with my earpods in listening to it I think it does affect how I CU I think I'm walking really cool but I'm pretty sure anyone who sees me just walking around just is going what is he walking like that is he listening to Neutron Dance well then he has no excuse to be walking like that to my I am always listening to Neutron Dance uh you mentioned uh the banana in the in the tailpipe because I know that originally it was supposed to be a potato right I'm s of curious when you figured out as an actor that you were in a place where you could stand up and go no that doesn't work it needs to be this cuz that's such a Monumental moment that happened only because you stood up and changed it well my from the very beginning I'm improvising and coming up with stuff I was watching 48 Hours a couple of months ago and there's that's my first movie and it's was like oh wow I wrote that and that's my line and I came up with that and I said so from the very beginning I guess it's from coming from Saturday Night Live you came on the set with you know oh no how about this and what if we do that and what if the director kept saying un 48 hours this isn't a comedy Eddie and I was who whoa and a lot of his stuff just got in cuz it was you know funny but uh we weren't trying to be funny but I was always uh we weren't supposed to be a comedy but I was always from the very beginning Chang how about trying to add in make it funny well obviously it worked out well I'll cut you loose on this there's an opening scene in this film when you're driving down the street and people are shouting Axel hey Axel you Axel when you're walking around the street what's the what what do people yell at you what's simp not you Axel but people scream out to me lot from my standup I did this thing where I would talk how foreigners a lot of foreigners would hear my stuff and then I just know I cursed a lot and then they would you know curse at me on the street like Eddie you Eddie and people scream that out anywhere I go someone will go you Eddie hey hey you how long did it take you to figure out like okay that's okay like they're not I knew immediately where it was from you Edie I knew immediately where it was from my kids though at first time they was like why is that man cursing it it's a legitimate question uh Mr Murphy there give me the rap I just want to end by saying man like I I grew up with you I I was raised on on your films I learned what great comedy and humor was because of watching I just want to say thank you for everything it's a real guys good to see you both again good to see you uh obviously it's the fourth time that Eddie is playing this character but something that to me is even crazier and correct me if I'm wrong neither of you guys have ever done a sequel to any of your own projects you've never returned to a character before am I am I wrong about that no yeah you're no you're right uh I I tried but it didn't work got trors always got Tremors yeah on for TV but uh but no no I never have is that just been kind of by accident was it just a conscious choice or do you just sort of pick roles that hard nobody wants to see me for a second time work no you know what I think actually you put you put your finger on something and that is that people you realize that the reason that there's been four Beverly Hills cops is because Axel Foley is a character that you want to see again and again and again and Eddie Murphy as Axel Foley is something that is just infectious and and it's really you know it's like it's like you go where is that guy going to be in five years where's he going to be in 10 years you definitely have that feeling about him that's why it get it get it works that's why it continues to work for times in a row do you guys have that feeling about any of your characters are there anyone that you're just sort of curious like where where is that guy today sure uh I I think about that with plenty of my characters you want me to pick one sure uh it's it's 30 years since Angels in the Outfield is he still where's that guy does he still show up to every game and do and everyone's looking at him do he still see Angels that's a funny one uh yeah sure how about uh donj where's where's John martello these days is he so many questions I have about that guy so many questions I'm not saying that that should be a sequel but but you're not saying it shouldn't either give the people what they want man you have a great line uh in this film where you tell Eddie that uh 94 is not your finest Hour which feels a little bit like a dig on Beverly Hills Cop it's not a little bit a dig okay here's the thing I love Beverly maybe because I was a kid and I love the theme park angle of it I love Beverly Hills a lot of people do a lot of people Defenders and a lot of people don't there are dozens of us I'll tell you who doesn't like it Eddie Murphy okay I was Wonder like what what was the vi when you have to deliver that line to him you have to make fun of an Eddie Murphy movie to Eddie Murphy what's the vibe on set yeah no he he's he speaks openly about not liking that movie and uh I will openly admit I have not seen part three and when I told him that he was like see okay so that's kind of like you you don't do the rewat like I did the rewatch before coming in here to rewatch part one and part you skip three I did I did all right it's you're missing out it's I'm I back all right fair enough uh we have to talk about 1984 which I think as a movie fan might be one of the greatest years in Hollywood history because not only do you have the original Beverly Hills Cop you got Foot Loose you got Ghostbusters Karate Kid Gremlins uh Indiana Jones in the temple of Dune I didn't realize that all those I think is it Thriller 1984 also I know we're getting into music but still like that's a killer killer year I'm just s of curious you are obviously a massive part of that year what do you remember not just as an actor but like a movie fan cuz it feels like every weekend there was some sort of classic movie dropping in theaters yeah listen I mean I I am a movie fan um I loved back then and I still love to go get my popcorn and sit in the dark with a bunch of strangers and and watch a movie so all of those movies I went probably in in New York you know uh and and saw and loved and uh yeah though and it was an ERA where you know when the 70s for me was was kind of a little bit more of a serious sort of time of film making you know you had you know Michael chimino and and cydney lamt and and scors scorsi and Peck and paaw you know there was like and I love that stuff that's the stuff that I was like dying to be in you know so the 80s was sort of a little all those movies that you mentioned are like woohoo yeah you know we Ghostbusters and Gremlins came out on the same day the same weekend which is crazy they're pulling me out here really quick just cuz it's the 40th anniversary and I've never asked you in all the times we've ever spoken what was it like filming the the dance scene from Foot Loose uh yeah it was really really tiring um and uh I was also had a little bit of a uh uh inferiority complex because there were I had so many guys that were dressed exactly like me that were going to do like flips for me or jump off something and I was like I can do some of this stuff you know but so I I remember looking and it was like four guys in in extremely tight uh you know blue jeans and t-shirts like standing by to you know jump in for me so well guys seriously this is always a massive honor to be able to speak with both of you seriously you've always been kind to me for a very long time and I really do appreciate you seriously thank you very much to gentlemen in honor thank you for taking the time I did a rewatch of the original trilogy before getting ready for that and there were moments where I was watching you guys where I would lean and go are they trying not to laugh like are they suppressing something I'm sort of curious if you guys were to sit down and particularly watch the the first one are there moments that you could pinpoint where you're actively trying not to laugh there's a real obvious one for us which one it's it's when Eddie's saying you guys sir you should you should give these guys cops because they're not just cops they're super cops Eddie had just come out with that and the way John hit it was he if you ever see the movie again he goes like this and I put my hands in my pockets and squeeze my thigh so hard I had this bruise cuz Eddie was at Living the whole thing he was on fire and we didn't want to blow that super cops they got to have capes and it was a three shot too so we were all in it you know now what is the balance of if you can get the crew to laugh it's a sign that you're doing something right but then it also means you just blew the take so is it a is it a sort of a double-edged sword of of cracking and breaking yeah making the crew laugh is gold yeah yeah uh you know I I read a story and I'd love for you guys to affirm or deny if it's true that when they were casting Rosewood and tagert that they would put two actors together and have you improv and your instruction was to act like an old married couple and that that from that interaction with you guys is where the line five lounds of unprocessed red meat came from is that is that true do you guys remember that initial audition yeah but that they they didn't tell us to improv oh really we we just did it you just what so it's in that moment how do you how do you know how do you feel that cuz it feels like you guys have known each other for the longest time like is it something that just happens well he was though I I John showed up I was already cast because I was cast when Stallone was playing it and and the first thing John says to me is so what is this and and I said well it's a guy from Detroit and and but you'd already read the script no I hadn't read the script okay I only read one I had four auditions and when Mickey RoR was going to do it and inst alone and then it kept changing and I was actually doing a play and uh the casting director saw the play and called me in for the audition and I went in and I only read this one scene every time I went in of where I punch he doesn't say hello to me he says what is this so and and and just in that in me telling him I it just felt like I'd known him and then we went in and it it was just it was it was great and and Marty told me later he called up uh the heads of Paramount and said where do you see these guys we got them did you ever get to play Rosewood opposite Stallone no no it never went that far because it was going to be a wildly different the what I always heard was that he was taking the humor out of the script and it was going to be much more of a harder kind of no he rewrote it and made it a lot more expensive because he wanted to do big car crashes down Rodeo Drive and and uh bust up some bent and they didn't know they had Beverly Hills Cop they didn't want to spend that much money on the movie so uh they suggested he do Cobra uh and uh he went off and did cobra that's I love that there are so many little Sylvester Stallone Easter eggs throughout which I think is a lot of fun I'll I'll cut you guys loose on this um there's a scene near the beginning of this film where where Axel's driving down the street and people just shout Axel or like you Axel which I think is fantastic when you're driving around and cuz you you've been a part of our lives for for so many decades what's the thing that most people shout at you what's the line that that that most people get you when you're driving around our names well tager don't let them put banana in your tail pipe is that is that the thing is that banana in the I had two two cops in an unmarked cargo Billy hey Billy and then I see them and they're laughing yeah does being a part of this series guarantee that you'll never get a feeding ticket for the rest of your life I doubt it so let's give it a shot it's hard hard to might help a little bit just just when whenever I feel like cops love when you just go do you know who I am cops love that that's their favorite thing in the world in this town uh gentlemen I just got to tell you as someone who was raised on VHS copies of these movies like I I have this job because I felt in love with movies that that you guys made seriously it's an honor AC cross thank you for taking your time we're going we don't need Roose

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Published: Tue Jun 25 2024