Topics: Celebrity, Eddie Murphy, Hollywood, Netflix, Drugs, Sex and Relationships, Documentaries
Eddie Murphy has claimed a world-famous Hollywood actor once offered him 'to have sex with his wife'.
After having shot to fame on Saturday Night Live, Murphy established himself as a massive movie star in the 1980s, and the next decade was also littered with success, from The Nutty Professor to Dr. Dolittle, not forgetting his roles as a voice actor as Mushu in Mulan and as Donkey in Shrek, through to Daddy Day Care, Norbit and Dreamgirls in the 2000s.
So, it's fair to assume the 64-year-old Golden Globe winner has probably had his fair share of parties in his time.
Now, he's telling it all from the beginning in his new Netflix documentary, Being Eddie, which came out on the platform on Wednesday (November 12).
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However, in part of the doc, Murphy recalled how the late Yul Brynner offered him something particularly crazy.
Brynner, famous for his portrayal of King Mongkut in the musical The King and I in both the stage performance and the 1956 movie, was considered one of the first Russian-American movie stars before his passing in 1985.
Murphy apparently met Brynner, recalling in the show: "My 21st birthday party, I had at Studio 54.
"Yul Brynner, 10 Commandments, he was with his wife and he was like, ‘How would you like to go back to my apartment with my wife and I and party?’ And I was like, ‘Nah, I’m cool!’"
Apparently thinking nothing of it at the time, Murphy said it's only years later that he's looked at the interaction differently.
"I realized as I got older, his wife was smiling. Did he want me to go f*** his wife?”, he said.
Murphy joked he's often reflected and 'thought back on' the moment in the decades since, and if it was how he imagined, he says he would have taken the star up on the offer.
“The story would [have] ended better,” Murphy continued.
“You know, ‘Yeah, I went back to Yul Brynner’s and f***ed his wife, and he was watching me going, ‘Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera!’” referencing the famous line of the King in the musical.
Yet, despite popular belief, Murphy clarified that while 'nobody had as much fun' as he did in the 80s, the party lifestyle wasn't entirely his scene.
"When I hung out with Rick James and them in the ‘80s, when I would see certain people in the room and you know it’s getting ready to go down … I just bounced,” he explained. “I was never curious about it. I never wanted to go in there and check it out, nothing. I just wasn’t with it.”
So much so, Murphy insists he's never eve once 'tried' cocaine in his life, and doesn't drink alcohol or smoke.
However, he has apparently dabbled with marijuana, stating: "I never even smoked a joint until I was 30 years old!”
