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

The US actor first debuted as Detroit detective Axel Foley in 1984’s Beverly Hills Cop
‘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 Beverly Hills Cop, three decades after the last film premiered.

The US actor first debuted as Detroit detective Axel Foley in 1984’s Beverly Hills Cop, 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.

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