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The actor caught up with his former co-star, The Hollywood Reporter executive director of events Jasmin L. Reate, at the Toronto Film Festival: "He was just as kind as I remembered him when I was 6."
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00:01He's looking for a missing child, a golden child.
00:05This child is special, Mr. Gerell. His destiny is to save the world.
00:08Eddie Murphy reunited with the child star from his 1986 movie The Golden Child at the Toronto
00:13International Film Festival on Sunday, 33 years after the movie first hit theaters.
00:18Murphy stopped by The Hollywood Reporter's studio at the St. Regis Hotel at TIFF,
00:22where he caught up with Jasmine L. Riotti. Riotti, who is now the executive director of events at THR,
00:28played the golden boy in the film. Yes, the boy in the movie was, in fact, played by a girl.
00:33She said of the reunion with her former co-star,
00:35he was just as kind as I remembered him when I was six.
00:37The film centered on a private detective who specializes in missing children,
00:41and is charged with saving the golden child, whom he's told will save mankind.
00:45You are the chosen one. You will find a child.
00:48Murphy was at TIFF promoting his upcoming movie Dolomite Is My Name,
00:52where he stars as real-life comedian Rudy Ray Moore.
00:54All my life people have been telling me no.
00:56Rudy, sometimes our dreams just don't come true.
00:59A man slam a door in my face, I just find another door.
01:02I want the world to know I exist.
01:04For much more from TIFF, head to THR.com.
01:06Until next time, for The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Tiffany Taylor.
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