Eddie Murphy recalls 'surreal' experience of going roller skating with Prince at 3 am ahead of his much-anticipated SNL appearance
Eddie Murphy is all set to return to the 'Saturday Night Live' stage and fans are eagerly waiting for the star to put on a show for them. However, ahead of his SNL appearance, Murphy first paid a visit to his fans on 'The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon'.
Taking people on a ride to the past, Murphy recalled the time when he hung out with Prince in the 1980s. “It was two or three in the morning, we were at his house and Prince says, ‘Who wants to go roller-skating?’ I was like, ‘What?’ We went to this roller rink at three in the morning… he had skates that would light up [when he walked],” he said, as reported by ET Canada.
Murphy described the entire experience as "surreal". However, this was not the only Prince story that he had in mind. Recalling another incident he said, "Where I live now, Prince stayed a couple of houses down, and my chef was leaving at two in the morning once. A car goes by, a purple car, with music, and he was like, ‘It’s Prince…’ The hubcap comes off, and the car keeps going, he picks the hubcap up and it’s got the Prince thing on the hubcap… the car makes a big U-turn and comes back and Prince says, ‘Can I have my hubcap back?'”
The interview also gave people the clarification on whether or not he ever turned down the role of 'Ghostbusters'. Murphy revealed that he turned down the movie because he had been filming 'Beverly Hills Cop' at the same time. But he did shed light on the movie that he turned down.
“The only one I ever turned down that became a big hit was ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit?’,” he said. “I was going to be the Bob Hoskins dude, and I was like, ‘What, animation and people? That sounds like bulls**t to me.’ Now every time I see it I feel like an idiot.”