Actor and comedian Eddie Murphy is switching things up in the fourth installment of the “Beverly Hills Cop” franchise, ditching his signature laugh. In a recent interview with CBR, the 63-year-old revealed he has forced himself against doing his trademark laugh. He explained that he had made the decision in response to how many people would mimic it.
The original 1984 film “Beverly Hills Cop,” where Mr. Murphy plays the character Axel Foley, was a huge success. But after the release of the film, Mr.
Murphy said that comedians, especially, would poke fun at him and always resorted to the laugh when making impressions of him. “I was like, ‘You know what? I’m going to stop laughing like that.’ I forced myself to stop laughing like that, which is really an unnatural thing.
Now, I don’t laugh like that.” Despite making the change decades ago, the laugh left a lasting impression and impressions still continue to this day. “The impressions and just, they were making too much of it.
Even still, if you say, ‘Do an impression,’ they‘ll do that laugh and they’ll talk like the Donkey [from “Shrek”]. If you say, ‘Do Eddie Murphy,’ they talk, ‘Hey, how you doing!’” “That’s not me,” the actor said. Mr.
Murphy is no stranger to laughs, after rising to fame at just 19-years-old as part of the 1980 cast for “Saturday Night Live.” Three years later, his comedy special “Delirious” became one of the most acclaimed stand-up performances, fo.
