{"id":2150967,"date":"2025-11-12T08:08:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T08:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2150967"},"modified":"2025-11-12T08:08:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T08:08:05","slug":"being-eddie-9-takeaways-from-the-documentary-about-eddie-murphy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/being-eddie-9-takeaways-from-the-documentary-about-eddie-murphy\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Being Eddie’: 9 takeaways from the documentary about Eddie Murphy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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

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

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

Directed by Angus Wall (an executive producer of \u201cThe 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

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

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Eddie Murphy, left, with his brothers Vernon Lynch and Charlie Murphy.<\/p>\n

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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

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… 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

The following are some of the more fascinating takeaways from \u201cBeing Eddie.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.latimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> 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. 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2150968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2150967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Being-Eddie-9-takeaways-from-the-documentary-about-Eddie-Murphy.com2Fab2F0e2F2b187cd54da3a4372baa1616.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2150967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2150969,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150967\/revisions\/2150969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2150968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2150967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2150967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2150967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}