Eddie Murphy stood 10 toes on his decision to make his comedy in 2007 “Norbit” after he got his first Oscar nomination to “Dreamgirls.”
The conversation occurred while Murphy appears in Complex interview series “360 with Speedy Morman” on Thursday. Hosted Speedy Morman asked Murphy which movies would make up his Mount Rushmore of best movies. After struggling a bit to make a final decision, he shared that it would be easier to name his “worst” project.
After listing “Pluto Nash” and “Holy Man”, Morman chose in to mention that some would name “Norbit” as one of Murphy’s worst projects. But Murphy rejected the idea.
“I love” Norbit “, shared Murphy.” ‘Norbit’ came out immediately after I got the Oscar nomination. There were articles like ‘How can he get an Oscar, did he do this?’ They are two different movies. Badly. “”
Murphy received an Oscar nomination for his role as Jimmy “Thunder” early in “Dreamgirls”, who met theaters in December 2006. Just a few months later in February 2007, “Norbit” landed at the cash register. And it actually got the title for the worst picture, worst actor, worst actor and worst actress at the 28th Golden Raspberry Awards.
Still, Murphy says: “I like” Norbit. “To this day I like” Norbit. “There are things in ‘Norbit’ that make me laugh.”
Look at the interview below:
When it comes to his best films, “Coming to America”, “Shrek”, “Dreamgirls”, “48 hours” and “Nutty Professor” made all the average, with the latter that the movie Murphy knows is a capsule of his talent as an actor and comedian overall.
When he swung back to his worst pictures and after confirming that he was the actor who was originally on his way to Chris Tucker’s role in “Rush Hour”, Murphy shared the “Holy Man”, was a movie he chose to make over the now hit the franchise.
“They came to me, there were two scripts,” Murphy explained. “It was” rush hour “, it will be action comedy and you will be with Jackie Chan, and it is action that it is summer time, run, all this physical stuff. This one was” you in a mantle in Miami “-it was a no-brain. We went to Miami and made a horrible movie, but it was easy.
