Wednesday, July 3, 2024 -American actor, Eddie Murphy has revealed the conversation he had with late actor Marlon Brando early on in his career.
Murphy was just 19 years old when he joined
the cast of Saturday Night Live in 1980.
His first movie, 48 Hrs with Nick
Nolte, was a box office hit, earning $78.8 million (which equates to $256.46
million when adjusted for inflation) and taking the seventh spot on the
year-end top 10.
While promoting his new film Beverly Hills
Cop: Axel F, Murphy revealed to The New York Times some bizarre advice
given to him by Marlon Brando.
After his rise through SNL and his
successful transition to the big screen, Murphy revealed, 'I was having these
famous people that I grew up watching on television wanting to have a meal with
me.'
'After 48 Hrs, Marlon Brando calls my agent
and wants to meet me. Now I look back and go, "Wow, that's crazy: The
greatest actor of all time wants to have dinner with you!"' he admitted.
'But back then I just thought, "Well,
that's the way it is: You make a movie, and Marlon Brando calls,"' he
added.
He added that Brando picked him up and took
him to his house on Mulholland Drive, where Murphy, 'was just going on and on
about The Godfather.'
'And he was like, "Eh, The
Godfather." Not just The Godfather -- acting. He was like, "Acting is
bulls**t, and everybody can act,"' Murphy said.
Murphy also revealed an actor Brando said
during their meal together that he couldn't stand at the time.
'This is how long ago it was: He was going,
"I can't stand that kid with the gun." I was like, "What kid
with the gun?" He said, "He's on the poster!" I was like,
"Clint Eastwood?" "Yeah, that guy!" He was calling Clint
Eastwood "that kid,"' Murphy said.
He also opened up about a night at just 19
years of age when he went to the Blues Bar - the then-iconic bar run by John
Belushi and Dan Aykroyd - with Belushi and Robin Williams.
'I remember I was 19, I went to the Blues
Bar. It was me, Belushi and Robin Williams. They started doing coke, and I was
like, "No, I'm cool,"' Murphy said.
He explained, 'I wasn't taking some
moral stance. I just wasn't interested in it. To not have the desire or the
curiosity, I'd say that's providence. God was looking over me in that moment.'
Belushi passed away from a cocaine
overdose just a few years later in March 1982 at just 33 years of age.
After Belushi's death, Williams never
touched cocaine, since he was partying with Belushi the night before his demise.
However, he would later have issues with
alcohol later in life before his passing in 2014 at 63.
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