Eddie Murphy recounts having an in depth encounter with Yul Brynner and his spouse in his new documentary, Being Eddie.
“My twenty first birthday celebration, I had at Studio 54,'” Murphy, 64, recalled within the doc, which hit Netflix on Wednesday, November 12. “Yul Brynner, 10 Commandments, he was along with his spouse and he was like, ‘How would you want to return to my condominium with my spouse and I and celebration?' And I used to be like, ‘Nah, I'm cool!' And I noticed as I received older, his spouse was smiling. Did he need me to go f*** his spouse?”
Murphy joked that as he's “thought again on” the second over time, he needs he would have taken the King and I star up on his supply.
“The story would [have] ended higher,” he quipped. “You recognize, ‘Yeah, I went again to Yul Brynner's and f***ed his spouse, and he was watching me going, ‘Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera!'” (Brenner died in 1985 at 65 after a battle with lung most cancers.)
Murphy went on to make clear that whereas “no person had as a lot enjoyable” as he and his buddies did within the ‘80s, he was by no means considering taking his partying to the following degree. As an alternative, the comic would pay attention to when medicine appeared throughout a selected get collectively and transfer on.
“After I frolicked with Rick James and them within the ‘80s, after I would see sure individuals within the room and you understand it's on the point of go down … I simply bounced,” he claimed. “I used to be by no means interested by it. I by no means needed to go in there and test it out, nothing. I simply wasn't with it.”
Jamie Foxx echoed Murphy's sentiment, saying in an interview for the documentary that his longtime pal has by no means been the kind of one that spent their time “dominating” the room.
“He's very introverted,” Foxx, 57, defined. “He'll sit at the back of the room with a Coca Cola.”
The Beverly Hills Cop star's greatest childhood heroes couldn't even tempt him to partake in unlawful substances. In Being Eddie, which options Murphy revisiting his decades-long profession in Hollywood, the comic recalled going to a blues bar with Josh Belushi and Robin Williams throughout his first 12 months at Saturday Evening Dwell — when he was simply 19 years previous – the place the pair “put some blow on the desk.”
“And I'm standing there, with these two heroes, I wasn't even curious,” he continued. “I used to be simply not with it.”
Murphy insisted that he has by no means “tried” and even “touched” cocaine in his life, doesn't drink alcohol or smoke cigarettes. He added with amusing: “I by no means even smoked a joint till I used to be 30 years previous!”
Murphy beforehand opened up about his encounter with Belushi and Williams throughout a 2024 episode of the New York Instances' “The Interview” podcast, calling the pair “cautionary tales.” (Belushi died of a heroin overdose in 1982 on the age of 33. Williams died by suicide in 2014 on the age of 63.)
“I wasn't taking some ethical stance. I simply wasn't considering it. To not have the will or the curiosity, I'd say that's windfall,” Murphy stated of his aversion to medicine regardless of their prevalence. “God was wanting over me in that second. Whenever you get well-known actually younger, particularly a Black artist, it's like residing in a minefield. Any second one thing might occur that may undo the whole lot.”
Being Eddie is now streaming on Netflix.
