Eddie Murphy struggled to keep a reference to the iconic banana exhaust pipe joke Beverly Hills Cop of his new film.
The 63-year-old actor was more than happy to reprise his role as Axel Foley in Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F but was disappointed to learn that the production team wanted to include a reference to the scene from the original 1984 film where his character foils pursuing police officers by placing a banana in the exhaust pipe of their car.
During a roundtable discussion with his castmates for NetflixThe comedian said: “I fought to make sure there was no banana in the exhaust, right up until the last day of the movie. Whenever we hit a little snag and needed a joke or something, the director would say, ‘How about the banana in the exhaust?’ ‘No, no, we can’t do that.’ ‘You know, but people really want to see that.’”
“I said, ‘No, they don’t do that.’”
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Although he found some of the production difficult, Murphy was very impressed with his co-star Kevin Bacon, who plays villain Captain Cade Grant in the action film, and praised the Hollywood icon for making his character a “great villain.”
Talking about Late Night with Seth MeyersO Coming to America star said: “He’s the perfect villain. One of the things he does Beverly Hills Cop work are the first two Beverly Hills Cops are very good, and the third one is a little soft. And that’s because we didn’t have a great villain.
“And now you have this great villain in Kevin Bacon. I don’t know what it is with leading men playing villains, he has this great, great villain.”
O uncommitted The star said she had crossed working with Murphy off her bucket list and shared how the actor was very attentive to his housemates.
He said People, “He really observes the person he’s working with.
“I noticed that he would pick up on something that the other person was doing or saying or whatever, and kind of feed it back to them. It was great. I loved working with him.”
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F is now available on Netflix.
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