Around that same time, I bumped into Sidney Poitier at something ... the mainstream — all of everywhere,” Murphy said. “My movies [were] all around the world, and they had never had that ...

Eddie Murphy reveals the role Sidney Poitier advised him not to take and other advice he received from Hollywood elders in ...

And they approached me about playing Alex Haley." Murphy continues: "And some-kind-of-where around that same time, I bumped into Sidney Poitier at something. And I asked him, ‘Yeah, I’m ...