“I stopped acting to not make shitty movies.” With these resounding words, Eddie Murphy summed up his six-year break in acting. He told about it in his last interview for the podcast WTF, presented by Marc Maron, with whom he chatted this Monday on the occasion of the sequel to The prince of Zamunda, on Amazon Prime Video. 30 years ago, this fiction made him win the applause of the public. Now he seeks to recover them. And even more after the list of scandals that he has accumulated since the turn of the century, which have stained his career.
The actor, who is preparing to welcome the 60 years, saw how his film career, so flattered between the 80s and 90s, declined as his controversies increased on a personal level. And, beyond his usual outbursts of humor, Murphy has not had an easy life. When he was a child he was abandoned by his father, who later he was stabbed to death by a mistress. At that time, her mother was recovering from tuberculosis, but her partner was an alcoholic. Over the years, the artist rescued this episode from his life to make jokes about it in his monologues.
Defender of polyamory, Murphy also made fun of women and the LGTBIQ + population. “If you see that I move a lot, it is so that fags don’t look at my ass. Aunts go out with their fag friends, they give them kisses and then they want to kiss me, spreading AIDS out there “, He came to express in one of his controversial performances, which put him in the spotlight.
The face of The game goes between rogues (1983) o Dreamgirls (film for which he was nominated for an Oscar in 2011), He has ten children, the result of five different relationships (some in parallel): with Paige Butcher, his last partner, he had Izzy Oona and Max Charles, the youngest, two and four years old respectively. Their oldest son is Eric, 31, whose mother is Paulette McNeely. Bria, who was born the same year, is the first of her five children alongside her ex-wife Nicole Mitchell, with whom she welcomed Myles, 28, Shayne, 26, Zola, 21, and Bella, 19. For his part, Christian, 30, was born out of his parallel relationship with casting director Tamara Hood.
It was during his marriage to Nicole Mitchell that the actor went through the best-known scandal of his career: in 1997, he was stopped in his car with a transsexual woman in an area of West Hollywood known for the influx of homosexual prostitution. The actor was released.
Later, he reached a consensus with the magazine National Enquirer after a millionaire complaint. Said media had paid the $ 15,000 bond to obtain the headline ‘The secret sexual life of Eddie Murphy. His transvestite whore tells it all. ‘ Also, this scandal did not matter to the rest of their partners, including, Mel B, ex Spice Girl. After their romance, she became pregnant, but the interpreter rejected paternity and demanded a DNA test that corroborated the singer’s version. In 2010, the little girl met her siblings.
During the trial, he remarried. This time with Tracy Edmonds. The celebration took place in Bora Bora and required legal confirmation upon return from the US. However, Edmonds continues to wait for the actor to sign the documents that make her his wife officially, although this is not the only humiliation they have lived the artist’s couples: Lisa Figueroa left him a desperate message on his voicemail that he later used as a ringtone on his mobile. Everyone could hear it every time it rang.
From his time in high school, Murphy stood out for his talent for imitation and for his sense of humor. However, these were not enough to save his film work. The papers he received and the constant criticism forced him to retire in 2011. Of course, in his rest period he did not abandon his passion for cars, in which has spent millions of dollars (It is thought that more than half of his fortune). His favorites are a Rolls Royce and a Ferrari.
Now, the artist seeks to return to interpretation. “I could get up, but the last things the audience saw me do was shit. So I decided, ‘I’m going to get up off the couch and do things that remind them that I’m funny “, the artist said to Maron. In addition, he plans to resume the monologue tour that began in 2020 and that had to stop due to the pandemic. Time will tell if, this time, Murphy will be able to be reborn, clinging to comedy,outside and inside screens.
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