Eddie Murphy Reveals His Big 3 'Wish I Would Have Done' Movies

Comedy fable Eddie Murphy has been a instrumentality favourite histrion for decades present — but adjacent he has immoderate regrets astir films helium wishes he'd starred in, ones that could’ve made him adjacent much beloved than helium was astatine the tallness of his career.

“Yeah, there’s a mates of movies,” helium told the Associated Press successful a caller interrogation wherever helium addressed movies helium wished he’d done. “Ghostbusters, I was expected to bash Ghostbusters. Didn’t bash that. And Rush Hour. Didn’t bash that. Oh, and Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Those are my large 3 ‘wish I would person done’ movies. They were immense elephantine hits.”

Eddie Murphy has revealed the 3 large movies helium wishes he'd starred in. Photo by Presley Ann/Getty Images for Netflix.

That said, helium had a beauteous bully vocation without those movies. “Well, with Ghostbusters, I did Beverly Hills Cop instead. So, it was like, it was bash this oregon that, truthful it worked retired cool,” Murphy noted, but with immoderate of the different ones, it wasn’t rather arsenic seamless. “And Who Framed Roger Rabbit conscionable sounded ridiculous to me, and I passed connected it. And, afterwards, I was like, 'Oh that’s f***ing amazing,’” helium explained.

No substance his regrets, Murphy is 1 of the champion known comedic actors of our time. He became celebrated aft his four-year stint connected Saturday Night Live from 1980 to 1984, and went connected to starring roles successful films similar Coming to America, The Nutty Professor, and Dr. Dolittle. He besides became known for his voiceover enactment successful animated films, peculiarly his dependable enactment arsenic Mushu the dragon successful Disney’s Mulan and Donkey successful Dreamworks’ animated bid Shrek.

Murphy opened up astir moving connected the 5th installment successful the Shrek franchise, which is acceptable to beryllium released successful 2027, during the a caller chat with The Hollywood Reporter. “You person a headache aft a Shrek session. The donkey has a batch of singing,” helium explained. “You’re connected 10, and you’re doing it implicit and implicit again. The large thing, though, is it’s appreciated. Everybody loves the movie.”

He added: "Nothing’s worse than moving truly hard connected thing and doing constitution and sweat and each this s***, and past you enactment it out, and they’d beryllium like, ‘Two thumbs down.’ You go, ‘I was successful the constitution seat for 50 hours.’”

Photo by Presley Ann/Getty Images for Netflix.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.