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Eddie Murphy has strict age ban on any of his 10 kids acting

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Published 16:47 17 Sep 2023 GMT+1

Eddie Murphy has strict age ban on any of his 10 kids acting

The Nutty Professor star previously told his children they 'couldn't work' until they were at least 18.

Ella Scott

Ella Scott

Eddie Murphy once revealed the reason why he decided to impose such a strict age ban on his children who were wanting to get into the entertainment industry.

Despite slipping into many roles during his fruitful career, Eddie Murphy claims that fatherhood is his favourite part to play.

Murphy has ten children including; Eric, 34, Bria, 33, Myles, 30, Shayne, 28, Zola, 23, and Bella, 21, all of whom all he shares with ex-wife Nicole Mitchell.

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With former girlfriend Tamara Hood, he shares Christian, 32, and with the Spice Girls’ Mel B he has Angel, 16.

His ninth and tenth children, Izzy, six, and Max, four, were born to Murphy and his fiancé Paige Butcher.

“I am so blessed with my kids,” he once said during an appearance on Marc Maron’s WTF podcast.

“I don't have one bad seed. I don't have any like 'Oh you are the one.' I don't have any of that. My kids are so great, normal people — and nobody is like the Hollywood jerk kid.”

Eddie Murphy shares ten children with four different women.
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The latter may be due to the Coming to America actor’s insistence that his ten children don’t get a taste for Twinkletown until they are old enough to handle it.

If Murphy’s children do ever want to follow in their father’s footsteps and into the world of film, they have to abide by one strict rule - be of a certain age.

In March 2021, daughter Bella told Yahoo Entertainment that the family are ‘not allowed to work in this industry until we’re 18’.

And back in 2020, the 62-year-old discussed his kids’ age ban with Vanity Fair, saying: “Getting it right, and getting it right with the director, and getting it right with the writers, and having everything work together—that takes a lot of effort, you know, and it’s strenuous.

“I had gotten to where I was just so burnt out on the process of making a movie that if I was a little boy I would start crying.”

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In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, the Shrek star said that Bella persuaded him to lift the age ban so that she could appear alongside him in Coming 2 America.

The actor previously said he would not let his children act until they were 18.
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Bella, then 16, apparently had to audition for the role the old-fashioned way as her dad was not willing to ‘muscle her into the movie’.

"I told her that she couldn't work until she was 18, but she started acting lessons, she was doing an acting school and stuff for maybe two years before that,” he said.

“The role was her age, it was somebody her age, so I was like, 'Mmkay, this is your age, you can go up for this.'”

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Following his performance in Coming 2 America, Murphy himself has recently portrayed Akbar in the 2023 American romantic comedy movie, You People.

As per IMDB, the star has two feature-length films currently in post-production; Beverly Hills Cop 4 and Candy Cane Lane.

Featured Image Credit: Gregg DeGuire/WireImage/Noel Vasquez/Getty Images

Topics: Eddie Murphy, Celebrity, TV and Film, Parenting, US News

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