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Eddie Murphy Reveals How He Avoided the Pitfalls of Fame · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: Eddie Murphy is back playing Axel Foley in the new
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Speaker 2: Beverly Hills Cup axle F, the latest installment in the
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Speaker 2: franchise that not only made him famous but transformed him
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Speaker 2: into a superstar, undoubtedly one of the biggest entertainers of
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Speaker 2: the nineteen eighties, a level of fame at his peak
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Speaker 2: on par with Elvis, Presley Prince and Michael Jackson. And
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Speaker 2: Eddie is very aware that all three of those men
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Speaker 2: passed away far too young. After battles with substance aviews.
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Speaker 2: He tells The New York Times, those guys are all
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Speaker 2: cautionary tales for me. I don't drink, I don't do drugs.
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Speaker 2: I wasn't taking some moral stance. I just wasn't interested
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Speaker 2: in it. To not have the desire or curiosity, I'd say,
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Speaker 2: that's the providence. God is looking over me in that moment. Now,
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Speaker 2: at my age, I can look back and see I
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Speaker 2: walk through a minefield for thirty five years. How do
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Speaker 2: you make it through a minefield for that long? Something
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Speaker 2: is looking over you. The words of Eddie Murphy. There
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Speaker 2: whose new movie Beverly Hills, Cup axle F is on
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Speaker 2: Netflix
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Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.