{"id":128993,"date":"2025-11-12T08:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T08:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/128993\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T08:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T08:50:08","slug":"being-eddie-9-takeaways-from-the-documentary-about-eddie-murphy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/128993\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Being Eddie&#8217;: 9 takeaways from the documentary about Eddie Murphy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix&#8221;&gt; <\/p>\n<p>Eddie Murphy has solidly been established as Hollywood royalty after a decades-long career stretching from \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d to \u201cThe Nutty Professor\u201d to \u201cDreamgirls\u201d and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>A key hallmark of Murphy\u2019s status is his voluminous gallery of offbeat characters \u2014 an impeccably attired prison convict, a clumsy professor, a wisecracking donkey, an elderly Jewish man and even an obese, abusive wife.<\/p>\n<p>In Netflix\u2019s \u201cBeing Eddie,\u201d now streaming, Murphy lifts the veil on the persona he feels the closest to \u2014 Eddie Murphy.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by Angus Wall (an executive producer of \u201c<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/music\/story\/2024-01-29\/we-are-the-world-lionel-richie-bob-dylan-prince-netflix-greatest-night-in-pop-documentary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Greatest Night in Pop<\/a>\u201d), the documentary traces the meteoric rise and triumphs of Murphy, who seldom grants interviews and is fiercely private about his creative process and personal life.<\/p>\n<p>With his trademark humor and probing insight, the entertainer offers candid perspective of his trajectory from a kid in New Jersey performing stand-up to joining \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d right out of high school, his string of hit films (\u201c48 Hrs.,\u201d \u201cTrading Places,\u201d \u201cEddie Murphy Raw\u201d) and his transition from foul-mouthed provocateur to family-friendly films.<\/p>\n<p>            <img class=\"image\" alt=\"A black and white image of three men leaning on a table.\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762937408_906_\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>         <\/p>\n<p>Eddie Murphy, left, with his brothers Vernon Lynch and Charlie Murphy.<\/p>\n<p>(Photo from Eddie Murphy \/ Netflix)<\/p>\n<p>He also addresses some of his misfires (\u201cVampire in Brooklyn\u201d), and throws more than a little shade at \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d and the Academy Awards (\u201cI haven\u2019t gotten an Oscar, and I\u2019ve done everything\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>The film is largely set at Murphy\u2019s castle-like estate, where he\u2019s seen hanging out with his 10 children and second wife, Paige Butcher. (\u201cMy legacy is my children, not what I did at work,\u201d he says. \u201cMy kids are the center of my life. It\u2019s all about them&#8230; If you put your family first, you will never make a bad decision.\u201d) Jerry Seinfeld, Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, Kevin Hart and Pete Davidson are among the numerous entertainers who comment on Murphy\u2019s influence on popular culture.<\/p>\n<p>The following are some of the more fascinating takeaways from \u201cBeing Eddie.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix&#8221;&gt; Eddie Murphy has solidly been established as Hollywood royalty after a decades-long career stretching from \u201cSaturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[81015,2701,16337,81013,1549,81014,55321,55323,146,81012,85,46,55322,54544,81016,22676,3263,762],"class_list":["post-128993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-abusive-wife","tag-award","tag-child","tag-cosby","tag-documentary","tag-dreamgirls","tag-eddie","tag-eddie-murphy","tag-entertainment","tag-family-friendly-film","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-murphy","tag-oscar","tag-pryor","tag-saturday-night-live","tag-show","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}