Eddie Murphy reveals the 3 massive blockbuster hits he wishes he never turned down

Eddie Murphy admits he has a limited regrets when it comes to his film career In a latest interview with The Associated Press the -year-old Coming to America star shared which movies he turned down over the program of his career he wishes he would have reported agreed to Yeah there's a couple of movies Ghostbusters I was supposed to do Ghostbusters ' Didn t do that and Rush Hour Didn t do that Oh and Who Framed Roger Rabbit Those are my big three wish I would have done movies When requested why those specific films stood out to him Murphy noted They were huge giant hits EDDIE MURPHY PAID FOR FUNERALS OF CELEBRITY FRIENDS WHO DIED BROKE IN HOLLYWOODThe first Ghostbusters movie was distributed in and made more than million at the box office domestically and had a sequel Rush Hour famously went on to have two sequels while Who Framed Roger Rabbit brought in over million domestically Well with 'Ghostbusters ' I did 'Beverly Hills Cop' instead So it was like it was do this or that so it worked out cool And 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' just sounded ridiculous to me and I passed on it And afterwards I was like 'Oh that's f---ing amazing While he regrets not participating in those movies his career did not suffer He went on to play multiple iconic characters in movies like The Nutty Professor and Dr Dolittle He later received an Academy Award nomination for his work in the movie Dreamgirls Murphy takes a look back at his legendary career as a comedian in the new Netflix documentary Being Eddie starting from his early days as a teenage comic LIKE WHAT YOU RE READING CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSDuring an interview with The Hollywood Reporter earlier this month Murphy shared that it wasn t going to be this type of documentary originally but was supposed to cover his return to stand-up comedy Then COVID hit and everything shut down he explained Afterwards I was like I m not sure if I want to do stand-up because I was paranoid about COVID We worked on this thing for five six years and now coincidentally it s my th year in show-business a milestone for anybody in any business One of Murphy's the greater part popular roles is as Donkey in the Shrek franchise The fifth movie in the franchise is set to release in years since the fourth movie was issued The new film will see the return of Cameron Diaz and Mike Meyers as Shrek and Fiona and adds Zendaya as one of the couple's triplets CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTER You have a headache after a 'Shrek' session The donkey has a lot of humming You re on and you re doing it over and over again The great thing though is it s appreciated Everybody loves the movie he commented Nothing s worse than working really hard on something and doing makeup and sweat and all this s--- and then you put it out and they d be like Two thumbs down You go I was in the makeup chair for hours