{"id":204661,"date":"2025-10-16T17:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T17:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/204661\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T17:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T17:28:07","slug":"eddie-murphy-documentary-teases-unprecedented-access-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/204661\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Murphy documentary teases unprecedented access (exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Netflix’s upcoming documentary ‘Being Eddie’ draws upon 40 hours of new interviews with Eddie Murphy in his home.<\/p>\n

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Eddie Murphy<\/a>\u2019s next movie finds him in the role of a lifetime: himself.<\/p>\n

The Netflix documentary \u201cBeing Eddie\u201d (streaming Nov. 12) chronicles the comedian\u2019s nearly 50-year career from his start on \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d<\/a> to hit movies like \u201cBeverly Hills Cop\u201d and \u201cShrek<\/a>.\u201d Many of his famous friends are interviewed, and the film takes the audience into Murphy’s home for candid conversations.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cEddie’s somebody that he feels he’s known who he is from the beginning,\u201d director Angus Wall tells USA TODAY for the exclusive first look at the documentary. \u201cHe’s been on a path of destiny since he was a kid. He is an artist where he can express\u00a0 himself through many different ways, not just through comedy or acting, but through music and all these different things.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe’s just got an incredibly flexible mind and spirit. His openness was really refreshing and kind of surprising.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wall started working on the movie in 2019, when he was given \u201cunprecedented access\u201d behind the scenes of Murphy\u2019s hosting gig on \u201cSNL.\u201d \u201cWe filmed in (Lorne Michaels\u2019) office, which nobody’s ever done and nobody may ever do again,\u201d the filmmaker says.<\/p>\n

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When COVID-19 hit the next year, the director set up cameras in Murphy\u2019s house during lockdown, and the two had about 10 \u201copen and vulnerable\u201d four-hour chats on a wide range of topics. \u201cTo me, the movie feels like those conversations; it feels like hanging out with him,\u201d Wall says. \u201cHe is exactly who he is in all situations. That said, he can become somebody else easier than anybody I’ve ever seen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Murphy unleashes a flurry of spot-on impressions, from Yul Brynner to Lon Chaney in \u201cThe Phantom of the Opera,\u201d while also discussing his many fan-favorite roles. “That’s an eight-part limited series, just the movies that he’s made,” Wall says. Yet Murphy got personal, too: Wall reveals he talks emotionally about the \u201cdeep relationship\u201d he had with his older brother Charlie, who died in 2017 of leukemia.<\/p>\n

In general, Wall found Murphy insightful, hilarious and spiritual. \u201cHe jokes about that in the movie,\u201d Wall says, \u201cbut he’s had something that’s guided him through his whole career.\u201d<\/p>\n

A number of familiar faces chime in about the comedian in \u201cBeing Eddie,\u201d including Jerry Seinfeld, Jamie Foxx and Tracee Ellis Ross. The movie also shows Murphy\u2019s close friendship with fellow comedians Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, Kenan Thompson and Tracy Morgan. Though they all have a \u201creverence\u201d for the 64-year-old star, \u201che’s so easy with them, and there’s a deep kinship there that you can feel,\u201d Wall says.<\/p>\n

\u201cEddie is such an icon and he’s such a legend, but he’s also one of the world’s most interesting people. He\u2019s just such a unicorn of a human being.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Netflix’s upcoming documentary ‘Being Eddie’ draws upon 40 hours of new interviews with Eddie Murphy in his home.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[4287,6225,6491,17710,2973,29688,4039,10845,55853,9093,26263,96,11943,3670,88474,8929,17712,29516,29687,2839,30663,392,50,1780,21923,5143,9371,9359,28771,4240,28770,47,391,28773,5148,56,54,55,5793],"class_list":["post-204661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-affiliate","tag-arts","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrities-u0026-entertainment-news","tag-comedy","tag-comedy-films","tag-documentaries","tag-documentary","tag-documentary-films","tag-eddie","tag-eddie-murphy","tag-entertainment","tag-films","tag-live","tag-live-comedy","tag-local","tag-local-affiliate-arts-u0026-entertainment","tag-movie","tag-movie-reference","tag-movies","tag-murphy","tag-netflix","tag-news","tag-online","tag-online-video","tag-overall","tag-overall-positive","tag-positive","tag-programs","tag-reference","tag-shows","tag-top-stories","tag-tv","tag-tv-shows-u0026-programs","tag-u0026","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}