Eddie Murphy Quotes Will Smith Slap Second in Golden Globe Speech

He went there! As Eddie Murphy was honored with the celebrated Cecil B. DeMille Award on the eightieth Golden Globe Awards, he addressed Will Smith’s now-infamous Oscars slap.

“That is very good,” Murphy, 61, mentioned throughout the broadcast, earlier than shouting out fiancée Paige Butcher and his 10 youngsters on Tuesday, January 10. “I’ve been in present enterprise for 46 years and I’ve been within the film enterprise for 41 years.”

The Daddy Day Care actor went on to supply Hollywood newbies just a few pointers that he’s discovered by means of the years. “I need to let you already know there’s a definitive blueprint that you may comply with to attain success, prosperity, longevity and peace of thoughts,” Murphy mentioned. “It’s a blueprint [that] I adopted my complete life. It’s quite simple. There’s three issues, you simply do this stuff: Pay your taxes, thoughts your enterprise and hold Will Smith’s spouse’s title out your f—king mouth.”

The room then erupted in laughter and applause.

The 53-year-old Emancipation star made headlines on the Academy Awards final yr when he smacked presenter Chris Rock throughout the face for joking about Jada Pinkett Smith’s shaved head. (Pinkett Smith suffers from alopecia and has been vocal about her hair loss.) Whereas Smith finally apologized for his actions, he was banned from future Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences occasions for 10 years.

Murphy, for his half, earned the celebrated Cecil B. DeMille Award throughout Tuesday’s present in honor of his prolonged contributions to leisure.

“We’re honored to current this yr’s Cecil B. DeMille Award to the enduring and extremely esteemed Mr. Eddie Murphy,” Helen Hoehne, the present HFPA president, mentioned in an announcement on the time. “We’re thrilled to be celebrating the lasting impression on movie and tv that his profession – in entrance of and behind the digicam — has had by means of the a long time.”

The Cecil B. DeMille Award is a particular Golden Globe, which is given to 1 recipient throughout the present. Earlier honorees embrace Jane Fonda, George Clooney, Tom Hanks, Robert De Niro, Audrey Hepburn and Steven Spielberg. Murphy’s honor marks the primary time in two years that the Cecil B. DeMille Award can be offered. There was not an honoree named throughout 2022 awards present because the celebrities, media and business executives boycotted the Golden Globes over considerations about range and the HFPA’s accountability.

Murphy, for his half, rose to fame within the 1982 film 48 Hrs., shortly earlier than touchdown blockbuster roles within the Beverly Hills Cop franchise and a recurring gig on Saturday Evening Reside. The New York native gained his first Golden Globe in 2007 for his character of James Early in Dreamgirls after 4 earlier nominations. He later earned a Greatest Actor in a Movement Image — Musical or Comedy nod in 2020 for his function in Dolemite Is My Title.

“I’ve been making motion pictures for nearly 40 years, and each few years once I do a film, they are saying I’m coming again,” Murphy informed IndieWire in December 2019 of his spectacular profession. “I’m like, ‘OK that’s the way you need to spin it.’ I’ve been making motion pictures for nearly 40 years. And my motion pictures have made a lot cash. The entire comeback and stuff, you may’t actually say that.”

He added on the time: “I by no means chase a trophy. However when your stuff will get nicely obtained to the purpose that there’s even dialogue about supplying you with a trophy, that’s a very good factor. It’s an excellent feeling as a result of most motion pictures don’t work. Most TV exhibits don’t work. Most information don’t work. Success is the exception, not the rule. And after they need to offer you an Oscar, or after they even have that dialog, that’s a very good feeling as a result of that simply exhibits you ways a lot folks favored it.”

Murphy, who has but to win an Academy Award, was beforehand nominated in 2007 for his Dreamgirls function.