Beverly Hills Cop 4 Star Aspired to Make Eddie Murphy ‘Crack,’ Loves Nutty Professor & Dr. Dolittle

Summary

• Taylour Paige praises Eddie Murphy’s comedic talent, aiming to make him laugh on set.
• Paige brings lightness to her role in the long-awaited
  Beverly Hills Cop
  sequel.
• The star-studded cast, including Murphy and Judge Reinhold, returns for the action comedy on Netflix.

Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F actor Taylour Paige has heaped praise on returning star Eddie Murphy, and says she took it upon herself throughout filming to “get the man who made the world laugh to laugh.” Discussing the long-awaited action sequel with Empire, Paige revealed her love for some of Murphy’s prior comedic credits such as The Nutty Professor and Dr. Dolittle and reveled in making the Hollywood icon “crack.”

“I grew up watching The Nutty Professor and Dr. Dolittle. It was like I knew him — it was surreal. The objective was to try and get the man who made the world laugh to laugh. I found it quite fun to crack him.”

Paige joins the Beverly Hills Cop franchise as Axel Foley’s estranged daughter, Jane Saunders, who now works in Beverly Hills as a criminal defense attorney. Continuing, the actor, who has starred in the likes of Zola and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, explained that she endeavored to keep things light while filming the upcoming Netflix action comedy…

“The world often feels like it’s in a chronic coma. And without being too grandiose, I want to be a part of something which helps people to snap out of it.”

Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F Is Due to Land on Netflix on July 3

Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F

Release Date 2024-00-00

Director Mark Molloy

Studio Eddie Murphy Productions, Jerry Bruckheimer Films, Netflix

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Fans of Eddie Murphy’s Axel Foley have been patiently awaiting his return for some time. The last audiences saw of the series was in Beverly Hills Cop III way back in 1994. The fourth Beverly Hills Cop finds Eddie Murphy reprising one of his most iconic roles on Netflix, and follows Axel Foley as he returns to Beverly Hills once again to investigate corruption within the force of the Beverly Hills Police Department.

You can check out the official synopsis below:

“Detective Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) is back on the beat in Beverly Hills. After his daughter’s life is threatened, she (Taylour Paige) and Foley team up with a new partner (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and old pals Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold) and John Taggart (John Ashton) to turn up the heat and uncover a conspiracy.”

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Directed by Mark Molloy, written by Will Beall, Tom Gormican and Kevin Etten, and from a story by Beall, Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F will bring back several familiar faces from the franchise’s past including Judge Reinhold as Lt. William “Billy” Rosewood, John Ashton as Sgt. John Taggart, Bronson Pinchot as Serge, and Paul Reiser as Det. Jeffrey Friedman, Axel’s partner in the Detroit Police Department. The rest of the cast includes Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Looper, The Dark Knight Rises) as the no-nonsense police officer ex-boyfriend of Paige’s Jane, as well as Mark Pellegrino (Mulholland Drive, Supernatural), and Kevin Bacon (Footloose, Tremors).

Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
is scheduled to be released on
Netflix
on July 3, 2024. You can check out the latest trailer below…

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