Beverly Hills Cop is a beloved franchise, and new movie "Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F," banks on every nostalgic reference we love about the original two ‘80s films (despite the threequel misfire). One thing that’s noticeably missing, however, is Murphy’s iconic laugh, and it’s been absent from his work for quite some time. Now we know why, and honestly, the reason is kind of a bummer.
When I brought up the laugh during our interview for "Axel F," Eddie Murphy was very willing to tell me the whole story.
When I brought up the laugh during our interview for "Axel F," Eddie Murphy was very willing to tell me the whole story.
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00:00I started out, that was my real laugh, and then I realized a little bit of, oh, they're laughing at my laugh.
00:05And then it became like, you know, part of it was like, all you have to do is do that laugh, and they would laugh.
00:10And it was like, oh, no, I don't laugh.
00:12And I really made myself stop laughing.
00:15Like, I don't laugh like that anymore.
00:16It's a strange thing as a human being to have to adjust something as natural as that way you go through.
00:22I can't laugh like that because people always look over me and say, oh, that's it.
00:27And once I was going into a hotel, and a guy came to me and said, you still got that laugh?
00:33And I was like, what?
00:34He said, you still got that laugh?
00:35And I said, yeah.
00:36He said, hey, man, was that computers?
00:40He asked me what was a computer.
00:42I didn't even know what to say.
00:43I just, I feel like I'm still standing there.
00:45I didn't know what, like he said, I just kind of, and just kind of walked away.
00:49Was that, tell me, he said it all like sotto voce, you know, just between you and me.
00:54Was that done with computers?
00:56It was like, I don't even know how to answer that.