‘I would rather not do stunts’: Eddie Murphy on his Beverly Hills Cop return at 63

Eddie Murphy in a scene from the original 1984 Beverly Hills Cop film (Landmark Media/Alamy)
Eddie Murphy said it was not as easy reprising his role in the fourth installment of
, three decades after the last film premiered.The US actor first debuted as Detroit detective Axel Foley in 1984’s
, which saw him go rogue and travel to California to solve the murder of his childhood friend — before returning in the 1987 and 1994 sequels.