![]() ![]() When this script came together just at the tail end of that movie, it was like, “Craig has to do this.”īrewer: I remember the night that we had a screening of “Dolemite” at Netflix - Eddie was there, Arsenio was there, we had a bunch of friends and family, and I think John Singleton was there. Murphy: He had just nailed “Dolemite Is My Name.” He cracked it over the fence and did such an amazing job. Released at the height of Murphy’s movie star ascent between installments of his “48 Hrs.” and “Beverly Hills Cop” films, the $288-million worldwide box office hit also marked the first time the actor played multiple roles in a single movie, a signature he’d make his own in later pictures.īut the producer-star needed good reason and good timing to come back to “Coming to America” after stepping back from the spotlight. “No one dresses up like Axel Foley for Halloween.”ĭecades had passed since the original film, directed by John Landis, introduced audiences to Zamunda, Akeem, his love Lisa ( Shari Headley), loyal aide Semmi ( Arsenio Hall) and fan favorites like the old-timers of the My-T-Sharp barbershop and singer Randy Watson and his band Sexual Chocolate. “I’ve done over 40 movies in the last 40 years, and I’ve had movies that have been more commercially successful than ‘Coming to America,’ but I don’t have any movie that became this cult movie,” Murphy said over video chat last month. He noticed as people flocked to pop-up replica McDowell’s restaurants, and when even Beyoncé and Jay-Z paid homage, donning costumes a la Zamundan royalty one Halloween. My son is my granddaughter’s uncle.”Ĭurrently spanning from ages two to 31, Murphy shares five children with his ex-wife Nicole Murphy, one each with Paulette McNeely, Tamara Hood, and Mel B, and two children with his fiancée Paige Butcher.Years ago, Eddie Murphy started noticing more and more fans quoting lines from his 1988 hit comedy “Coming to America,” the rom-com fairytale in which his charming Prince Akeem of the fictional African nation of Zamunda defies tradition to find true love in Queens, N.Y. So I think she’s five months - a five-month-old grandchild and a 10-month-old son. He said on their show, “I have my first grandchild. When his youngest son and first grandchild were born just months apart back in 2019, Murphy spoke with Kelly Ripa and Ryan Seacrest in an interview about how amusing it was to think about how his family had expanded. I am blessed - I really, really got lucky.” My kids are so great, normal people – and nobody is like the Hollywood jerk kid.” He wrapped up by saying, “My kids are smart and are trying to do stuff. I don’t have any like, ‘Oh you are the one’. He continued, “I don’t have one bad seed. Despite starring alongside one of his daughters in the recently released Coming 2 America, the star said he didn’t play favorites and was happy about how all of his kids have turned out. “I am so blessed with my kids,” Murphy added. I realized that if you put your children first, you never make a bad decision,” the actor shared in tidbits to the outlet. The whole idea of being out there and doing three movies a year, that sh*t is over. I found it over and over again and along the way. “I am going to be 60 in April and I have all these babies,” Murphy told the newspaper. ![]()
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