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Eddie Murphy on Bonding with His ‘The Pickup' Co-Star Pete Davidson and Making Action Movies at Age 64

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00:00There's a lot of jokes about you being older in this movie.
00:03I remember these last two movies that I did, and I had fight scenes.
00:08During the fight scene, the actors, they were improvising.
00:11They were two young guys, and one of them said, both of them said,
00:14Come on, old man!
00:15And I almost said cut.
00:17I was like, who the fool are they talking to?
00:19It's like, wow, I'm the old guy in the fight scene there.
00:23What does that feel like?
00:25It's strange, it caught me off guard.
00:26In another scene, he was like, you're a crazy old man.
00:30I was like, hey, this old man theme is starting there.
00:34You're not even 65 yet.
00:35Not even 65 yet. I'm a pre-senior.
00:38Do you feel 64, whatever that's supposed to feel like?
00:41No, I just feel like me still.
00:44What's it like?
00:45A little stiffer.
00:46The stunt scenes in this movie where you're like, yeah, I'll let the body double do it.
00:52I've always let the body double do it.
00:54I never was doing stunts.
00:56Never been the stunt guy.
00:58What's it like working with Pete Davidson?
01:00I love his energy.
01:02Yeah, he's really funny and quick, smart, good actor.
01:08I loved it.
01:09You said you got into a lot of talk about films, your favorite films, your favorite lines from movies.
01:15Yeah, it was a lot of that.
01:16And a lot of, we had a lot in common, you know, both of us, we lost our dads when we were eight, both Saturday Night Live alumni, both stand-up comics.
01:26So we had a lot in common.
01:28And Shrek, did you ever think you'd be going into the recording studio to do Shrek again?
01:34I did.
01:35I always said, yeah, even after they said the last one was the final one.
01:38I'm like, no way is this the final one.
01:41It'll wait a few years and it'll definitely come back.
01:45I think they'll make Shreks forever because they work.
01:49People love them.
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