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- Eddie Murphy has addressed the destructive reception he acquired for 2007’s Norbit in a brand new interview
- The actor praised the comedy movie for which he gained three Razzie Awards in 2008
- “I like Norbit … Come on now, [it] ain’t that dangerous,” Murphy stated in protection of the film
Eddie Murphy has no regrets about making the 2007 comedy movie Norbit.
The comic and actor, 64, stated he thinks the film, which was highly-criticized on the time of its launch, is “humorous … to today” as he defended the Razzie-nominated movie in a brand new interview.
“I like Norbit,” Murphy informed Advanced. “Norbit got here out proper after I acquired that Oscar nomination [for Dreamgirls]. There have been articles like, ‘How can he get an Oscar, he did this?’ They’re two completely different motion pictures.”
Murphy defined that he wrote the comedy together with his brother, late comic and actor Charlie Murphy “and we expect Norbit is humorous.”
“Right here’s the factor with Norbit, it got here out and so they gave me Razzie Awards for worst actor of the last decade, worst actor and worst actress,” Murphy stated laughing. “And I used to be like, ‘Come on now, s— ain’t that dangerous. So that they have been simply hating [on me].’”
Murphy earned 5 nominations in complete for his efficiency in Norbit on the Razzie Awards in 2008. Regardless of the general public criticism he acquired for the image on the time, the actor insists that he nonetheless has a delicate spot for the movie.
“I like Norbit to today,” Murphy informed Advanced. “There’s stuff in Norbit that makes me chuckle.”
Elsewhere within the interview, Murphy listed off his “Mount Rushmore” of his favourite motion pictures of his profession, which included Coming to America (1988), The Nutty Professor (1996), Shrek (2001) and the musical Dreamgirls (2006), for which he acquired an Oscar nomination for Greatest Supporting Actor.
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The comic additionally named amongst his worst motion pictures Pluto Nash (2002) and Holy Man (1998), which he revealed he took as an alternative of the hit action-comedy Rush Hour, starring Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan.
“They got here to me and there have been two scripts,” recalled Murphy. “There was Rush Hour, and it’s going to be an motion comedy [with] Jackie Chan and … it’s summertime, operating, all this bodily stuff. And this different one was you in a gown in Miami … I used to be like, it was a no brainer.”
Murphy additionally claimed within the interview that the 1989 movie Driving Miss Daisy, starring Morgan Freeman, was “initially developed for me”, however he turned it down.
“I used to be like, ‘I ain’t driving no Missy Daisy,’ ” Murphy joked.
