Eddie Murphy’s return is not going to stop anytime soon.
The 59-year-old “Coming 2 America” actor appeared alongside Arsenio Hall in an episode of Kevin Hart’s SiriusXM radio show, “Comedy Gold Minds”, and confirmed that he plans to return to stand-up comedy as soon as the coronavirus pandemic is over.
“My plan was to do Dolemite, Saturday Night Live, Coming 2 America, and then get up. And then the pandemic hit and closed the entire city, ”explained Murphy. “So I was going – all the time last year, I would have worked on my acting trying to make my malaise right, and then the whole thing hung up.”
He added that “when the pandemic is over and it is safe for everyone to go out and do it,” said Murphy, “the plan is to do it.”
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Murphy also talked about the original 1988 film, “Coming to America”, revealing interesting information about the film: he and Arsenio Hall played each character in the barbershop scenes, which until recently caught Oprah Winfrey off guard when he heard about it.
Eddie Murphy is planning a return to stand-up comedy as soon as the coronavirus pandemic is over.
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“I texted Arsenio last week. I was like, ‘You know, I don’t know if everyone knows we’re all these characters,'” said Murphy. “I did an interview with Oprah last week – I was talking about the movie and I was like, ‘Yes, and then I’m the old Jew.'”
“She was like, ‘What do you mean by the old Jew?’ I said, ‘That’s me at the barbershop,’ “Murphy continued.” She said, ‘Are you the old Jew ?!’ And she saw the original “Coming to America”. She saw that. You only [don’t] realize that, you know, I was that character. Many people don’t realize it. “
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Murphy and Hall also recently appeared on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”, Where Hall, 65, revealed that the studio had them cast a white actor to play Maurice’s character – played by Louie Anderson.
“I love Louie, but I think we were forced to put him in this,” recalls Hall. “We were forced to put [in] a white person. “
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Likewise, Murphy recalled that Paramount was opposed to the 1988 film having an all-black cast.
Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall reprise their roles in ‘Coming 2 America.’
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“They said, ‘There has to be a white person in the film,'” he said. “So who was the funniest white guy there was? Louie, we knew him, he was cool, so that’s how Louie got into the movie.”
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Anderson, 67, is expected to repeat his role in “Coming 2 America”. The film will premiere for streaming on Amazon Prime Video on Friday.
Fox News’ Nate Day contributed to this report