Eddie Murphy was indignant when he didn’t win an Oscar for Dreamgirls.
Eddie Murphy livid about Dreamgirls Oscar
The 64-year-old comic and actor misplaced out on the Greatest Supporting Actor Oscar to Little Miss Sunshine’s Alan Arkin and admitted he was irritated that he obtained dressed up and attended as a result of he “would often not go to award exhibits”.
Talking in new Netflix documentary Being Eddie, he mentioned: “Not profitable the Oscar or not profitable something will not be the mindf*** for me. The mindf*** for me is that I dress and are available to the factor, ‘trigger I’d often not go to award exhibits.”
“That is… each time I lose, I am like, ‘These m************ made me come all the way in which down.’ I may have f****** misplaced at dwelling. I am all within the f****** tuxedo. What a… a waste of time. I am by no means, like, ‘Oh, I did not win.’ I am like, ‘Hey, make me come down right here for nothing?’
“It is at all times great to win stuff, but when I do not win, I do not give a f***. I nonetheless come dwelling, and it is… I am nonetheless Eddie within the morning.”
In the meantime Eddie not too long ago insisted he is not motivated by accolades and recognition, and does not “take into consideration profitable trophies”.
Eddie instructed The Hollywood Reporter: “What’s on my thoughts is simply doing good things and solely doing stuff that I’m going to have enjoyable doing.
“I don’t take into consideration profitable trophies. I obtained a bunch of trophies. I obtained the whole lot however an Oscar, and I’m not like, ‘That is going to get the Oscar.’
“The actual fact of the matter is, if I by no means win an Oscar, finally they’ll give me a kind of honorary Oscars once I’m 90 years previous. In the event that they made me wait that lengthy, I’m going to put on a sky blue tuxedo, and once they give me the Oscar, I’m going to urinate on myself whereas I’m giving a speech!”
