"Sidney Poitier said, 'You are not Denzel [Washington], and you are not Morgan [Freeman]. You are a breath of fresh air, and don’t f*** with that!'" Murphy recalls. By Carly Thomas Associate ...

Eddie Murphy is opening up about some advice Sidney Poitier once gave him that left him surprised. “They were talking about doing Malcolm X,” Murphy recalled. “Norman Jewison was putting it ...

Eddie Murphy is reflecting on puzzling career advice he received from Sidney Poitier. The Beverly Hills Cop star recalled an interaction that he had with the legendary In the Heat of the Night ...

“Sidney”). The Apple TV+ documentary charts the Hollywood history of boundary-breaking Black male actors like Poitier and Murphy and how they charted the path for Black actors working toda ...

Eddie Murphy has shared the advice Sidney Poitier gave him after he was approached to star in the 1992 film Malcolm X. Murphy, 63, who shot to fame on Saturday Night Live before establishing ...

Eddie Murphy has shared the advice Sidney Poitier gave him after he was approached to star in the 1992 film Malcolm X. Murphy, 63, who shot to fame on Saturday Night Live before establishing himself ...

Eddie Murphy is reflecting on puzzling career advice he received from Sidney Poitier. The Beverly Hills Cop star recalled an interaction that he had with the legendary In the Heat of the Night actor ...

Murphy continued: “Around the same time, I bumped into Sidney Poitier at something and I asked him, ‘Yeah, I’m thinking about playing Alex Hayley.’ Poitier said, ‘You are not Denzel ...

And Sidney Poitier said, 'You are not Denzel [Washington], and you are not Morgan [Freeman]. You are a breath of fresh air, and don't fuck with that!'," as per the outlet. Murphy admitted he "didn ...