![]() ![]() Proof, if we needed it, that Eddie is still the Daddy.African American actor and comedian Eddie Murphy (b. And four decades on there’s more to come, too – with Beverly Hills Cop 4 in the pipeline. He emerged from the minefield safely, of course. I had a lot of stuff I had to navigate and go through this minefield like being in your 20s and being famous.” ![]() “When they saw Nick Nolte in 48 Hours, the 6ft blond leading man, they thought I stole the role. People said I stole the scene and they thought that was really, really funny. But they found that funny and that was some s*** we just stumbled on. Because usually the black character was the sidekick. "I was the first African American character in films to go into the white world and take charge of the world. I got offered 48 Hours and that was a big hit, that blew it all open – and then Trading Places came out. I got that and totally took it for granted. It just felt like ‘this is how it happens’. You could say the Polish jokes and you could say anything back then. But it was nothing that fazed him.Įddie says: “It was the old world back then. He encountered some racism at first – people asking how he could afford luxuries before realising who he was. Eddie likes to hark back to his early days, when he shot to fame in his teens with comedy take-offs of boxing legend Muhammad Ali and former President Jimmy Carter.Īt 19 he appeared on Saturday Night Live. As Coming 2 America shows – Eddie back at his best, playing the main character and a string of others, aided by disguise and prosthetics. I stopped doing standup as I was like, ‘Am I funny’?” I was like ‘let me do some stuff and remind them I am funny’. I was only going to take a break for a year and then six years go by and I was like, ‘I could sit on this couch and not get off it’. I was like maybe it is time to take a break. They gave me the Worst Actor Ever Razzies. I was making these s****y movies and they ain’t fun. He says: “I was like ‘let me take a break from movies’. The final straw was when he won Worst Actor Of The Decade at the Golden Raspberry Awards, nicknamed the Razzies. But he gave up acting for six years in 2011 after a string of flops which included Norbit, Pluto Nash and Meet Dave.ĪLSO READ: Inside Mel B and Eddie Murphy's ‘poetic romance' to courtroom battle Movies soon followed and Eddie’s huge Hollywood hits include Trading Places – alongside Dan Aykroyd – 48 Hours (with Nick Nolte), the Beverly Hills Cop series, Nutty Professor – and voicing Donkey in Shrek. Eddie plays King Akeem in Coming 2 America. He displays a softer side than the brash, motor-mouthed character who burst on to the scenes as a comedian 40 years ago. Eddie says he likes nothing more than to relax on his sofa. The fantastic picture was taken at his Beverly Hills home, which comes complete with bowling alley. The former couple agreed in 2009 that she would have sole physical custody of Angel with the actor reportedly ordered to pay $25,000 a month, health insurance and costs, as well as education fees.Īngel appeared alongside all of her siblings when Eddie introduced them to new baby Max at Christmas, 2018. But last year Mel filed court papers requesting he pay more in child support after her income “dramatically reduced”. You shouldn’t jump to conclusions, sir.”ĭespite the initial wobble, Eddie now has a good relationship with their daughter Angel, 14. Eddie famously told one interviewer: “I don’t know whose child that is until it comes out and has a blood test. His relationship with Mel courted controversy after she fell pregnant with their daughter in 2006. (Courtesy)ĪLSO READ: Mel B 'asks for more child support from Eddie Murphy after earnings crash' Eddie’s kids, two grans and fiancée Paige. He also had one child each from relationships with Paulette McNeely, Tamara Hood and, of course, Spice Girl Mel B. ![]() He has two young children with actress fiancée Paige Butcher, 41, and has five kids from his marriage to model Nicole Murphy. My kids are smart and are trying to do stuff. My kids are so great, normal people – and nobody is like the Hollywood jerk kid. I don’t have any like, ‘Oh you are the one’. When asked if he gets on with them all, Eddie replies: “I am so blessed with my kids. When you hit a crossroads moment or you have got some s***, you think, ‘Well, what is best for my children?’ If you go that route then you never make a bad decision.” “I found it over and over again and along the way I realised that if you put your children first you never make a bad decision. The whole idea of being out there and doing three movies a year, that s*** is over. He says: “I am going to be 60 in April and I have all these babies, I love fatherhood. ![]()
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