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In the upcoming Netflix film 'You People,' Eddie Murphy plays Akbar Mohammed, a pro-Black Muslim dad who isn't shy about his belief that his daughter's new boyfriend isn't the right match for her. We asked the father of 10 whether he shares any similarities with Akbar when it comes to meeting his own kids' new partners.
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00:00I was excited about working with everybody.
00:03And the most pleasant surprise of the whole thing was Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
00:08Because I had worked with her when I first started Saturday Night Live,
00:12my second season on the show.
00:15She came on, that was her first season, so we were on that show together.
00:18So we were like babies in high school.
00:21Then cut to, you know, 40 years later.
00:24And I watched the Seinfeld show.
00:26I watched that every night before I go to bed.
00:29I watched two episodes of Seinfeld.
00:31Then it lights out.
00:33I was a huge fan of hers from watching the show.
00:37And then I watched the VP, all that stuff.
00:40So to get to work with her again after I worked with her as kids.
00:43And she's so brilliant in the movie.
00:45I'm never going to meet a woman who understands me.
00:47I don't think I've heard of a man ever who wanted to be in a relationship so badly besides Drake.
00:52And I'm talking Views Drake.
00:53The hit it loud.
00:54I feel like Views Drake.
00:56Alone on a building, dangling my legs off, wondering what it's like to feel.
00:59Companionships.
01:01What the fuck?
01:02What the fuck?
01:03What are you doing?
01:04Oh my God, I'm being attacked.
01:05You're okay?
01:06But you're not getting five stars.
01:08Yeah, I'm an Uber driver.
01:09I mean, honestly, you guys are twins.
01:12Oh my God, wait.
01:13She really does look like me.
01:15I'm sorry.
01:15This was insane.
01:17Let me make it up to you.
01:19You're dating a black girl?
01:20I've never felt so understood by somebody in my entire life.
01:24Whether you like it or not, we kind of go together now.
01:27You're my boo.
01:27Come on.
01:29I'm going to ask her to marry me.
01:31Do you plan to out to her family?
01:32Yeah, I just haven't had the chance to meet them.
01:35What's going on?
01:36Tell me about life.
01:37How are you?
01:38This is your white granddaddy come back and haunt me.
01:42What?
01:43Now this is my fault?
01:45So you want to marry my daughter?
01:47Yes.
01:48Yes, I do.
01:49Well, Ezra, you can try.
01:52I would love to start with when you first got a call about this project and what ultimately
01:56made you say yes.
01:58When I got the call, I was excited because I respected the writer and the director.
02:05And then I read it and I was like, wow, this is a romantic comedy that has the edge to it
02:12because it's having this racial thing and that's unique.
02:19And I wanted to be part of it then.
02:20You know, my favorite scene is actually a really short one, but on the plane with you
02:25and Jonah Hill and Sam Jay, you know, when you call her bro and she's like, wait, do you
02:33have a favorite scene?
02:35No, I just like the whole movie.
02:37Okay.
02:37I like the whole movie.
02:39I like the scene in the barbershop.
02:41That's kind of funny when I'm trying to scare him and, hey, what's up with white cuz?
02:47And I bring him to the barbershop with red and yellow.
02:50That's kind of funny.
02:52Yes.
02:52And I really liked this scene with me and Mike Epps in the car at the end of the movie.
02:58Mike, he's always, I've done two movies with him and he's, oh, Mike Epps is just naturally
03:08funny.
03:09Yeah.
03:09He's raises whatever the scene is, whatever it is, he's going to make it, take it up to
03:15here.
03:16Just, he's just naturally funny guy.
03:20You know, lastly, your daughter got married in real life last year.
03:24You know, how much were you like Akbar in real life when you were betting whether he was a
03:28good partner for your daughter?
03:30No, I wasn't like that at all.
03:31This guy's a nice guy, classy guy.
03:34Smart.
03:35Smart, talented, so, yeah, I was nothing like Akbar, nothing like that.
03:43He came, we talked first, he talked to me and it was very respectful and old-fashioned and
03:49yeah, couldn't have had a better first experience becoming a father-in-law.
03:57Well, thank you so much for your time.
03:58I appreciate it.
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