Eddie Murphy says Marlon Brando once told him that ‘acting is bulls–t,’ couldn’t ‘stand’ Clint Eastwood

A supper invite from Marlon Brando was just an offer Eddie Murphy could not refuse.

Recalling a unforgettable discussion he experienced with the late 2-time Oscar winner, Murphy, 63, recalled a pair of exchanges he experienced with Brando, who was recognized to hardly ever mince words and phrases.

In an job interview with the New York Times’ podcast “The Job interview,” the “Trading Places” actor thorough the time he was invited to the late actor’s property subsequent his initially-ever film function, in 1982’s “48 Hrs.”

“This is how lengthy ago it was: He was likely, ‘I can not stand that kid with the gun.’ I was like, ‘What kid with the gun?’ He explained, ‘He’s on the poster!’ ” Murphy named.

“I was like, ‘Clint Eastwood?’ ‘Yeah, that person!’ He was calling Clint Eastwood ‘that kid,’” he included.

Inspite of calling Eastwood a “kid,” Brando was just 6 decades more mature than the “Million Greenback Baby” star.

In other places, Murphy recalled the quite initially time he hung out with Brando, who died at age 80 in 2004.

Brando picked up Murphy at a rooftop cafe at the L’Ermitage luxury resort in Los Angeles, in advance of inviting him above to his house.

“He came and picked me up at the lodge. But there was a time mix-up, and I arrived down like a fifty percent-hour late — he was waiting for me in the automobile,” Murphy recalled.

“We went to his house on Mulholland,” he shared, incorporating that he “was just going on and on” about Brando’s 1972 film “The Godfather.”

Brando, who played Don Vito Corleone in the hit film, brushed off the praise.

“He was like, ‘Eh, The Godfather.’ Not just ‘The Godfather’ — performing,” Murphy recalled. “He was like, ‘Acting is bulls–t, and everyone can act.’”

Murphy explained he seems to be again on people reminiscences fondly to this day.

“I was possessing these popular men and women that I grew up observing on tv wanting to have a food with me,” he explained.

“Now I search again and go, ‘Wow, which is insane. The biggest actor of all time would like to have evening meal with you!’ But again then I just assumed, ‘Well, that is the way it is. You make a movie, and Marlon Brando calls.’”