'Being Eddie' lifts the veil on one of America's top comedians: 9 takeaways from the documentary

Eddie Murphy has solidly been established arsenic Hollywood royalty aft a decades-long vocation stretching from “Saturday Night Live” to “The Nutty Professor” to “Dreamgirls” and beyond.

A cardinal hallmark of Murphy’s presumption is his voluminous assemblage of offbeat characters — an impeccably attired situation convict, a clumsy professor, a wisecracking donkey, an aged Jewish antheral and adjacent an obese, abusive wife.

In Netflix’s “Being Eddie,” present streaming, Murphy lifts the veil connected the persona helium feels the closest to — Eddie Murphy.

Directed by Angus Wall (an enforcement shaper of “The Greatest Night successful Pop”), the documentary traces the meteoric emergence and triumphs of Murphy, who seldom grants interviews and is fiercely backstage astir his originative process and idiosyncratic life.

With his trademark wit and probing insight, the entertainer offers candid position of his trajectory from a kid successful New Jersey performing stand-up to joining “Saturday Night Live” close retired of precocious school, his drawstring of deed films (“48 Hrs.,” “Trading Places,” “Eddie Murphy Raw”) and his modulation from foul-mouthed provocateur to family-friendly films.

Eddie Murphy, left, with his brothers Vernon Lynch and Charlie Murphy.

(Photo from Eddie Murphy / Netflix)

He besides addresses immoderate of his misfires (“Vampire successful Brooklyn”), and throws much than a small shadiness astatine “Saturday Night Live” and the Academy Awards (“I haven’t gotten an Oscar, and I’ve done everything”).

The movie is mostly acceptable astatine Murphy’s castle-like estate, wherever he’s seen hanging retired with his 10 children and 2nd wife, Paige Butcher. (“My bequest is my children, not what I did astatine work,” helium says. “My kids are the halfway of my life. It’s each astir them... If you enactment your household first, you volition ne'er marque a atrocious decision.”) Jerry Seinfeld, Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, Kevin Hart and Pete Davidson are among the galore entertainers who remark connected Murphy’s power connected fashionable culture.

The pursuing are immoderate of the much fascinating takeaways from “Being Eddie.”