BEING EDDIE DOC

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
And Good John with Cleveland, Kinkara and Albany.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Mister Wall, how are you, We're great, Welcome to the
Welcome to the show. Two time Oscar winner, the creative
force behind the new net Netflix documentary Uh Being Eddie, which,
by the way, is fantastic. Thank you for bringing this
to us. As a longtime fan of Eddie Murphy, thank
you for bringing him in focus for us.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
Well, such a pleasure to do it. You know, he's
been around in entertainment almost fifty well fifty years next year,
so I think it was time.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
So is he a private is he super private?

Speaker 3 (00:33):
Well, you know, he is super private, and it's interesting
and there's a there's a bit where he's talking to
Letterman and Letterman I think they're talking about dream growth
and Letterman says, well, that seems like the real you,
and Eddie goes, I've never played the real me in
a movie, and I think this is actually the first

(00:54):
time we see him like that. He is very, very private.
I think it's one of the reasons that he's been
able to be healthy and have a family and be
who he is for for so long.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
The process of him becoming who he is today is
just fascinating. There's a section in the in the documentary
where you talk about Eddie talks about being at a party.
Was it a Schwarzenegger's house or something, how awkward he felt.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
Yeah, it's funny. He makes it really clear that he's
just never he says in there, you know, he's talked
about his father and he says, my dad was always
the life of the party. Then he looks, he basically
looks at camera and he says, I am never the
life of the party.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
That's hard to believe.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
It. Well, you know, it's funny people who because I
think people think he's an extrovert because he gives everything
he possibly can whenever he does a role. But you know,
Raeth Carter late late in the movie, you know, Reeth
Carter talks about she's his stylist and multi Academy Award

(02:01):
winning style is amazing human. She says, you know, people
think comedians just kind of walk around telling jokes all
the time, and then when you kind of get to
see that that's their job and you kind of see
this other part of them, it's it's it's very interesting.

Speaker 4 (02:17):
Zangus Wall behind Being Eddie, which is on Netflix right now,
is I saw I saw in the news in the
in the pay in the paper. The beef with David
Spade was real and long is it still? Is it
still going?

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Great job on that part.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
Oh oh thank you. That's kind of the turning point
of the movie. He does not, as he says in
the movie, you know he really he no longer. He
never really had beef with David Spade. He had beef
with FNL. Because you know, David Spade does this bit
where he does Spade in America. It was a bit
on FNL. I forget what year it was, and it

(02:56):
was mid nineties and there's a picture of Eddie and
David Spade says, look, kids, it catch a falling star
something like that, and basically that it's it's saying that
Eddie's a falling star.

Speaker 4 (03:10):
Whatever movie he had Brutal, he thought he was off
limits for to be punchline.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
Well, you know, as Edie explains in the movie, that
joke has to go through all these producers saying that
it's got to get vetted. So you know, when Eddie
did go back to SNL in twenty nineteen, it was
a big deal because he basically said, I'm going to
let all that go. I don't have beef with SNL
or anybody else. And that just kind of speaks to

(03:41):
the kind of person he is. He's very he's very
level headed, he's very you know, he's it's actually very spiritual.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
Look, you have this, you have this idea on who
Eddie is, and it's just not who you think it is.
It may be a part of it.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
But it's just not school is he just ch and
rich and sober. He's rich.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
He wants to do exactly what I want to do,
which is sit on the couch, and even says it
in the documentary.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
When we set up to make a movie and Eddie's
talked about this, it was really about the return to FNL,
And then there was talk. I mean we had talked
about him going back out and actually filming him getting
ready to go back out. Obviously December twenty eight, nineteen.
We all know what happened after that. So we had

(04:32):
to pivot because he wasn't going out. Nobody was going out.
Yeah right, yeah, of course, you know, I don't know
what that movie would have been. I'm sure it would have
been great, but we pivoted into something that was much
more personal.

Speaker 4 (04:48):
Hangus, you were just you were going to do a
coming back going on Tour documentary.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
That was the idea.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
Yeah, yeah, okay, and it's it's it's it's from the
None of the documentarians are in this crap. I don't
have to see you being all asking questions. Get I
get Dave Chappelle, I get Eddie Murphy, I get all
the SNL But it's like it's and everybody is fascinating
about their relationships. The house, by the way, Eddie's house,

(05:13):
it's kind of thing you don't normally see but maybe
hear Dave Chappelle talking about going over there on a picnic.
It's incredible. It's got a roof that opens to the
to the sky like a like.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
A intractable, retractable roof.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
It's fascinating.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
How much time did you spend actually with Eddie Angus.

Speaker 3 (05:28):
Quite a bit of time. I mean, you know, we
spent time virtually during lockdown because you know, everybody was
kind of cracked open emotionally during that time, because everybody
was just sitting at home and we we just we
would We had like I don't know, seven, eight, nine,
maybe ten, three or four hour conversations where it was
kind of like a video conference, but we were filming him,

(05:52):
so he was very, very open, very generous. I mean
everybody was generous to your point. I mean everybody that
we interviewed was just there was like, I got I
really want to talk about this guy because he's so
important to me.

Speaker 4 (06:05):
Adam Saylor, Chris Rock Chappelle, Jamie Fox, Jerry Seinfeld, they're
all in Being Eddie. We're talking to Angus Wall, two
time Oscar winner, Behind Creative Force, Behind Being Eddie. The
hughle Brander story came out Eddie and second thought thinks
you'll you'll Brander wanted him to sleep with his wife.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
That's a surprise.

Speaker 3 (06:27):
Think you're like, that's gonna be the movie is so crazy, and.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
He said, Noah.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
At the time, you know, he thought about you could
have could have gone back.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
Now he wished. Now he wishes he had because he
you know, as he says in the movie, it would
have made a much better story. Total.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
Well, yeah, it's great. It's candidates, it's a wonderful documentary.
And you don't come out of and think of Eddie
Murphy as.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
A deck either, which is great Being Eddie.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
You check it out Netflix Quinn can't tear it picks
when I'm sick.