00:00Tracy Morgan. I don't pull out. You're going to get pregnant. You're going to get pregnant
00:07with me. Excuse me, ladies. That wasn't me. That was Tracy Morgan.
00:13Please tell me you didn't get arrested again. Twice, but I broke out.
00:22Is this the one that you get recognized from the most? The Beverly Hills Cop franchise?
00:26Yeah, probably. You know, when they're yelling, hey, Taggart, when they walk down the street,
00:31you know, so that's a pretty good compliment. Yeah, the cops just call me Billy. For real?
00:36Yeah. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah, I get to, Taggart, watch out for the banana in the tailpipe.
00:42It doesn't have been like 40 years of that. Are you sick of it yet? Or are you still like it?
00:45We are proud to be in a celebrated franchise, I think. That's what it is. That we weren't
00:52doing something that had been buried and that we were dredging up, you know, that there's
00:58a continuation. We're proud about that. Yeah, you know, and when we were shooting the first
01:04one, we didn't know what we had. No.
01:06You know, I mean, you're an actor, you go to work, you do your job, and you don't know
01:11what you really have yet, you know, because you haven't seen the editing. So you just do
01:15day by day, you do your job, do your job. And we went to the premiere, and it was kind
01:21of a lukewarm reception, you know. So Judge and I, a couple nights later, went to a regular
01:27theater with a regular audience and sat in the balcony. And halfway through, people are
01:32screaming and yelling and laughing. And we looked at each other and said, we better get
01:35out of here. Yeah.
01:37Were you there last night?
01:38Yeah, yeah.
01:39Okay, so you didn't have to go see it at a regular theater this time, because that was
01:42a good reception. Yeah, yeah. And that's an industry reception. So I can't even imagine
01:48what the regular audience is going to be like. Yeah, it played well. Played well, you
01:53know, and it was really kind of cool, I thought. When Paul Reiser came on, everybody applauded.
01:59When I came on, everybody. When he came on, everybody. I thought that was very cool.
02:03I haven't pissed off anybody. Yeah, 50-50. 50-50. Is it that high?
02:07So far. Wow.
02:08Kevin, get this, okay? This is nuts to me. 1984, top 10,
02:12box office releases were Footloose at 6.
02:17Let's dance!
02:18Beverly Hills Cop at 7. Right next to each other.
02:22Also, on the top 10 was Indiana Jones, Ghostbusters, and Karate Kid.
02:27All of those properties have had reboots now, or revivals, except for...
02:32Yeah, the F movie.
02:33Does that mean that Rent's coming back?
02:35Well, he's not coming back. I mean, they did do another Footloose.
02:39It was... I mean, I don't think a lot of people saw it, but they did do another Footloose.
02:43Let's dance!
02:45Not a lot of people saw it, because it didn't have Kevin Pinfield.
02:49You know, I don't know. Playing that guy, I think that this one makes a lot more sense.
02:55Yeah, you'd just rather, like, get into someone else's franchise.
02:58Yeah, man. Yeah, a lot less pressure.
03:00Right now, the internet is really cynical regarding, like, reboots and sequels,
03:06but here you are collecting Oscar nominations and box office success one after the other.
03:11Have you, like, cracked the code? How did you...
03:14I don't know if there's a code. We just try to make movies.
03:17I make movies I want to go see, and so I'm very particular in the kind of movies I want to go see,
03:22so we worked really hard on it.
03:24You bring a new director in, you know, his life depends on it,
03:27and that's what you want from a director who's talented like Mark is.
03:31He went, this movie has to be great for his career, and that's the best for us.
03:36You know, when you get a director who's had so many successes after success,
03:39they could phone it in, but he can't phone it in. He's got to make it perfect.
03:43He's... That means that your stress is what made the movie work.
03:46That's good, man. Jerry's totally right. When you get offered an opportunity like this,
03:52I grabbed it with both hands, and I did not let it go,
03:54and I did not stop working until it was going to be great.
03:57You know, I just... You get those opportunities, and you make the most of them.
04:02What is the one that people keep bugging you about the next, like, sequel or reboot?
04:06It's always Pirates or Top Gun, or all of them, you know, they all want to see them again.
04:12If we get it right, then they want to see them again.
04:14You just re... You know, came out with a sequel to Coming to America.
04:18I was wondering if your experience developing that came into play at all
04:23with how you approach these things, rebooted franchises and sequels.
04:26No, Coming to America came about when I did... I got the Mark Twain Award.
04:33And when I got that, Tracy Morgan was one of the people who was at the Mark Twain Award,
04:38and he told me an idea that he had about...
04:41He said, I got this thing about this dude, this guy that go to Africa to find their wife,
04:46just like coming to America.
04:48It's the opposite.
04:49You know, y'all came to... You came to America.
04:51We're going to go to Africa and find our wives.
04:54And I was like, hmm.
04:56And that's where the whole idea of coming to him.
04:59Then people started pitching.
05:00People was like...
05:01What was the brother's name that Coogler that directed...
05:04Ryan Coogler.
05:05Yeah, he...
05:06They came...
05:07He had...
05:07He came with a pitch, and they wanted to do a...
05:10It was like, so Tracy came, then Ryan Coogler came, and it was like,
05:14people are...
05:14They really like this Coming to America.
05:17So then we came up with something, you know.
05:19And then Ryan Coogler went off and did Black Panther.
05:21Because I didn't like the pitch that he had.
05:24It's...
05:25It was a pretty solid Tracy...
05:27Tracy Morgan.
05:28Oh, my Tracy Morgan.
05:29Tracy Morgan!
05:30I don't pull out.
05:33You're going to get pregnant.
05:36You're going to get pregnant fucking with me.
05:38I'm going to get everyone in this building pregnant.
05:40Pregnant.
05:40Pregnant.
05:41Excuse me, ladies.
05:42No, that's perfect.
05:42That wasn't me.
05:43That was Tracy Morgan.
05:44Oh, hey!
05:45You stole a helicopter?
05:46I didn't realize that you couldn't really buy a helicopter.
05:49Otherwise, I would have came up with a different idea.
05:51Was it bonkers to see it played back to you for the first time with the iconic soundtrack,
05:56and did it take on a whole different vibe?
05:58Well, you know, the soundtrack entered my mind from the second I started reading it.
06:03Yeah.
06:03It sort of went on to a loop.
06:05And certainly while we were shooting, I would go to sleep with it in my mind.
06:08I would wake up in my mind.
06:10I'd look at the call sheet.
06:11It would say Beverly Hills Cop 4.
06:13I'd hear the soundtrack.
06:14I mean, it's really hard to...
06:16It's hard to escape.
06:16It's a totally infectious melody.
06:19That melody is one of the very first I ever remember learning to plunk out on a piano when
06:25I was a little kid and could probably just play, like, Marry Had a Little Lamb and Twinkle
06:30Twinkle Little Star.
06:31I started figuring out...
06:33So it's a deeply meaningful song to me, and I love hearing, I love hearing, like, the original
06:46synth version, but also in this, in this movie, you get to hear it played by a full power orchestra.
06:52Yeah, which is great.
06:53Which is pretty great also.
06:54Yeah, it's like the John Williams version.
06:56Right.
06:56But the movie works.
06:58I mean, it really does.
07:00And you could feel it last night in the audience.
07:02You know, people dug it in that crowd, and I think they're going to dig it at home.
07:06From very early on, I was chatting to Lorne, our composer, and we were talking about, you
07:11know, the soundtrack from one and two.
07:14And it's amazing that you get handed that as a starting point.
07:19And such a, those soundtracks, such a huge influence in those films, you know, and such
07:25the DNA of those films, you know.
07:27So when I was on set, I was playing some of those, some of the original soundtracks back.
07:32You'd be doing a shot, I'd put the soundtrack on, but yeah, yeah, no, this feels good.
07:36This feels good.
07:37Now, you know, make that pan a little bit slower.
07:39I could hear, I could hear that soundtrack in my head.
07:42And then obviously we didn't want to just put the old soundtrack on.
07:45We wanted to evolve it, but it laid the foundations for a lot of the tone of the film and, you
07:53know, and the feeling of the film.
07:54Well, was there one for you where you were like, now we finally feel at home in the franchise.
07:57I can't believe we're doing this.
07:58I think probably for both of us, it was the Unmarked Car with Eddie.
08:03Oh, yeah.
08:04Yeah.
08:05Because we really felt home there.
08:07Yeah.
08:08Like something good was going to happen just whenever the three of us are doing something.
08:14It was unspoken, but we were all kind of beaming about it.
08:17I'll tell you one thing we would do.
08:19We would work with Marty Breast again.
08:21Absolutely.
08:22In a second.
08:23In a minute.
08:23In a minute.
08:24Marty!
08:25I'm done!
08:27I'll release that online.
08:29We'll see what happens.
08:29You had like an iconic laugh that people were butchering.
08:35I started out, that was my real laugh.
08:38And then I realized a little bit of, oh, they're laughing at my laugh.
08:41And then it became like, you know, part of it was like, all you have to do is do that laugh.
08:44And they would laugh.
08:45And it was like, oh, no, I'm not.
08:47And I really made myself stop laughing.
08:50Like, I don't laugh like that anymore.
08:52That's a strange thing as a human being to have to adjust something as natural as that
08:56where you go through, I can't laugh like that because people always look up and say, oh,
09:02that's the thing.
09:03And once I was going into a hotel and a guy came to me and said, you still got that laugh?
09:08And I was like, what?
09:09He said, you still got that laugh?
09:11And I said, yeah.
09:12He said, hey, man, was that computers?
09:16He asked me, was it a computer?
09:17I didn't even know what to say.
09:18I just, I feel like I'm still standing there.
09:20I didn't know what to like.
09:21He said that just kind of, and just kind of walked away.
09:25He said, he said it all like sotto voce, you know, just between you and me, man.
09:30Is that done with computers?
09:31Beverly Hills Cop 1 was nominated for one Oscar.
09:35Do you know what it was?
09:38I think it was screenplay soundtrack, wasn't it?
09:42I think it was screenplay, maybe.
09:43Screenplay.
09:44Screenplay.
09:44Yeah, very good, very good.
09:46All right, let's just, it's your honor roll.
09:48Beverly Hills Cop 2 was nominated for one Oscar as well.
09:51What was it?
09:53Two.
09:54I've got no idea on this one.
09:55No, no.
09:56No idea.
09:56Best original score.
09:58I can't.
10:00I was right.
10:01I just had it in the wrong order.
10:02You guys are doing pretty good.
10:04Beverly Hills Cop 3 was nominated for three Oscars.
10:06No, I'm just kidding.
10:09Me and Jerry haven't seen that one, so we don't.
10:11Have you really not seen it?
10:13No.
10:13Ah, I just watched it yesterday for the first time.
10:15Did you?
10:16Yeah.
10:16By intention, huh?
10:17Mm-hmm.
10:18Benoit Blanc 3 is looking to be noir-y, kind of, you know what I mean?
10:24Is that exciting?
10:25He's going back to his roots, and what are the chances of more than a voice cameo?
10:28Yeah, I don't know.
10:29I don't know.
10:30But he makes only good movies.
10:33Rian Johnson's one of the best alive, I think.
10:35I got all five senses, and I slept last night.
10:37That puts me six up on the lot of you.
10:39They're telling me to rap.
10:40Do you think you're in your villain phase right now?
10:42Or have you always been in your villain phase?
10:43Oh, I don't know.
10:45Listen, I'm just trying to work out my demons, man.
10:48That's a really great short last-second answer.
10:50I appreciate you guys so much.
10:52God, I miss two, Axel.
10:53I'm just trying to work out my Hoffman.
10:59Have you been a game?
11:02I'm just trying to work out my to-
11:15I'm just trying to fuck your trust now.
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