Eddie Murphystill has a matter to settle withRichard Pryor.
TheCandy Cane Laneactor appeared onJimmy Kimmel Live!Wednesday to chat about his new holiday film, and joked that the late comedianstill owes him moneyfrom a bet they’d made decades previous.
HostJimmy Kimmelnoted that for Murphy’s 1985 albumHow Could It Be, one of the liner notes reads, “To Richard Pryor, my idol, with whom I have a $100,000 bet. No motherf—–, I didn’t forget.”
“When I told him I was doing a music album, he bet me $100,000 that I wouldn’t put out a music album where there’s no jokes or nothing, it’s just all music. He said, ‘You’ll never do it.’ And I bet him $100,000. And then I did it, and he never paid me,” recalled Murphy, 62.
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Eddie Murphy; Richard Pryor.Steve Granitz/FilmMagic; Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty
Steve Granitz/FilmMagic; Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty
“I like Eddie a lot. Eddie’s good inside. His s— is natural, it’s real," Pryor said in the same interview. “I’m hard to get inside. But I wouldn’t mind getting to know Eddie and sharing some real stuff, friendship. I don’t think I could pick a better person than Eddie.”
Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor inHarlem Nights(1989).Bruce Talamon/Paramount/Kobal/Shutterstock
Bruce Talamon/Paramount/Kobal/Shutterstock
As for Murphy’s current pursuits, he reunites with hisBoomerangdirectorReginald HudlinonCandy Cane Lane, which Murphy produced and also stars in, marking his firstChristmasmovie.
Candy Cane Lanealso starsTracee Ellis Ross, Thaddeus J. Mixson,Ken Marino,Nick Offerman,Robin ThedeandChris Redd.
“I read the script and I was like, ‘This is charming. This is very charming and really cute and I love the people,” Ellis Ross, 51, recently told PEOPLE in ajoint interview with Murphy. “And there was magic, the element of magic. There’s special effects. And Eddie Murphy was in it. Eddie Murphy was in it, and Eddie Murphy was in it. And then because Eddie Murphy was in it, I was like, ‘This might be fun.’ ”
And Ellis Ross said they hit it off on day one: “The first day of work, he said, ‘Hello,’ and he said my full name, ‘Tracee Ellis Ross.’ And that was it.”
Candy Cane Laneis streaming Friday on Prime Video.
source: people.com
