“COMING 2 AMERICA” STAR EDDIE MURPHY

DREW’S LITTLE YELLOW BOOK: THE MOTIVATIONAL WATER JUG

AIR DATE: FRIDAY, MARCH 12^TH

VIDEOS:

Eddie Murphy on “SNL” Sketches

https://drewbarrymoreshow.cimediacloud.com/r/Bc96j4foSZrH

Drew: Do u remember doing the E.T. sketch? You were Mr. T looking for his boy E?

Eddie: You know what’s so strange about the whole SNL experience, it was so long ago, sometimes there will be like a sketch on and I don’t even remember the sketch, I’ll be watching it going, ‘What is this sketch? What happens next?’ It’s so long ago and so many sketches in between that and so much stuff. A lot of times I don’t remember it. I don’t remember that Mr. T. sketch.

Eddie Credits His Spirituality for Avoiding Pitfalls of Fame

https://drewbarrymoreshow.cimediacloud.com/r/OG9n7YKEJ0Ck

Drew: I was reading about how you lean into being a spiritual person and being centered and that you said maybe you avoided some of the pitfalls that were so easy at your disposal, if you will, because of spirituality. Is that true?

Eddie: Yeah, I am very grounded spiritually and not so much any religion. Just connection with God, being a young person in this business you have to navigate through a minefield there are so many ways you can just destroy yourself. A lot of the people that I’ve seen that destroyed themselves, a lot of my contemporaries are the people like Michael and Prince and Whitney, people that came on the scene around the same age that I am they kind of, it was this self-destructive thing that they had. That’s my biggest blessing that I got started really early, I knew what I wanted to do really, really young and that I loved myself. I never hated myself, I never beat up on myself. I’ve always been my biggest fan.

Eddie on Why He Took A Step Back from Making Movies for Eight Years

https://drewbarrymoreshow.cimediacloud.com/r/VS2GWO1iCwRz

Drew: You had such a succession of these epic films, you know you were so young do you ever come down from those periods of time where you had hit after hit and you’re working?

Eddie: I’ll tell you what happened to me. I had it all the way together for years and years and years and then what happened with movies is they started offering you so much money to do stuff that I wound up doing, you know what that’s like, you’re just there and ‘You want to give me that much money to do that ****? Okay.’ I wound up doing a bunch of movies like that and it’s forever, like way after the money is spent that **** movie is still playing on the movie channel. So I got to where I stopped having fun making movies, so I had to take a time, like 2011 I think it was, I stopped for like 8 years, I stopped making movies and that’s when I had really, really quiet time and got re-centered. If I’m going to be doing something I want to be doing it because I want to do it. I got it all back together that way.

Drew Loses It When Eddie Murphy Quotes Her Favorite Coming to America Line 

https://youtu.be/rERzwWzwzas

Drew’s Little Yellow Book: The Motivational Water Jug

https://drewbarrymoreshow.cimediacloud.com/r/lWe590DowZB5

Drew: Welcome back before we go we’ve got a quick pick from the Little Yellow Book….Today it’s the hydration trend that even has The New York Times writing about, it’s called the motivational water jug, it’s all over Instagram….For people who are a little intimidated like myself to drink an entire gallon, it also comes in 32 oz and 64 oz….

Ross: Okay, what I like about this it says on the side little motivational things like, ‘You’re doing it. Keep going.’ Which I found very encouraging.

Drew: Joy, the nutritionist, she was here the other day saying that the amount of water you are supposed to drink is your weight on a scale and then that’s divided in half, the ounces, so I’m  up to like 70 ounces. You do the math, that’s 140 pounds. That’s kind of what I rock I’m like 140, if it’s a good week like 135 and if it’s a really bad week 145. That’s where I’m at, that’s my weight. My age is 46 and I am 140 pounds. Thank you for watching everybody.

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