Eddie Murphy stars alongside Jonah Hill in the Netflix comedy 'You People.' The Hollywood icon stops by Trending to talk all about the new movie and its cast. 

Eddie Murphy Talks 'You People' and Cancel Culture

Jonah Hill wants to marry his girlfriend but he'll have to impress her parents first. And Eddie Murphy might be hard to win over. Yes. We're talking about netflix's new film. You people, here's a look and ask her to marry me. Do you plan to talk to her family? Yeah. I just haven't had the chance to meet them. What's going on? Tell me about life. How are you? This is your white granddaddy. Come back to haunt me. What now? This is my fault. So you want to marry my daughter? Yes, Yes, I do. Well, Ezra, you could try wow, wow! What a cast, kenya Barris, who was the creator of A. B. C's Blackish, gonna make his feature directorial debut of you people. The film also has a star studded cast. You just saw a few right there, Julia louis Dreyfus Deon cole. And of course Jonah Hill and Eddie Murphy at our west Coast correspondent. Asia Celestino caught up with Eddie Murphy to talk all about the movie. Take a look at this. Eddie. Thank you so much for taking the time, honestly. An honor to speak with you. Especially coming off of your recent honor at the Golden Globes. So, congratulations on that. And this film, I want to ask you how you got involved with this project and your first reaction to the script. They sent it to me Asia. They sent the script to me and I immediately said yes because I thought it was hip and edgy and kind of smart and funny and I hadn't seen a romantic comedy that had this edge to it since romance since uh guess who's coming to dinner. You know, it's like this race conversation that's happening throughout the Excuse me throughout the movies is unique. I got involved. I was saying coming out of the screening, I thought of it one way other journalists I spoke with had a completely different view. So this movie really is like a cultural inkblot test. I'm wondering what you see when you think of you people, What do you mean? What do I see? Like what is your perception of the film? Because based on your experience, it can be so different from what someone else sees. I think it's a funny first and foremost, it's funny and I think that it's it couldn't be more timely. I think uh the racial tension is at a fever pitch in this country and to have a romantic comedy that's you know, has all the stuff that romantic comedies have, but there's this race dialogue that's going on and you have moments conversations that are awkward to have and all that stuff. And I just thought it was. That's how I see it. To see the movie. It's a really hit romantic comedy that couldn't come out at a better time. Yeah, exactly. So topical for right now and your character Akhbar is a part of some really funny but also uncomfortable scenes. What was it like to navigate some of that with this cast and what Trust was there for each person in the room, everybody was open, everybody was open and everybody was into it and there were, there were a couple of times where it was like, can we say that, okay, is there gonna be? And uh, kenya has just had his finger on the pulse, kenya and Jonah wrote it and uh, they, they're the ones that walk, that get them find the line that we have to walk, you know, and we just did a great job, I think it's really brilliant and like I said, it's gonna play differently to so many different people. Open up a lot of conversations. Another thing I want to ask you is being a legend in comedy, seeing the changing landscape and how everything's under the microscope with social media these days. I wonder what you think about it. And also if you were a comedian coming up right now, how you would be traversing this industry maybe differently than when you came up, well, it's a whole different industry. Uh we have more opportunity now than you've ever had before uh, back when I started the thing everybody was shooting for was to get a shot on the Tonight Show, that was, that was the ceiling and now you have all these different comedy clubs and you have all these different platforms that you can do comedy on and it's just so many more comedians, there's so much more opportunity and uh, you know, and I know there's a, there's this scrutiny now, you know, and they go over stuff that you say people get bent out of shape and it's, you know, there's more opportunity than it's ever been. That's what I think. We have a bunch of funny people, you know, and every now and then somebody steps over the line and you know, gets a famous people and gets canceled or something. But it's still more opportunity than it's ever been. Yeah. Was that a fear that was present when you were making this movie? Like was that in the back of your mind as a comedian? Thinking about cancel culture or were you just like, you know what this is a story I want to tell, I'm here to tell it. I never think about cancel culture cause I've been gigging for so long. You know, you cancel me now, It's like cancer. I was getting ready to stop anyway. We get the a listers on this show. Yeah, special. Thanks to Eddie Murphy. You people hit netflix tomorrow, january 27th and the rest of the you people cast. Guess what, joining us on trending tomorrow. So be sure to tune in at seven p.m. Eastern time