text:  So kind of watching Beverly Hills Cop, the first one, and getting back in that mindset, it allowed me to kind of see it from a totally different perspective. Like he's also, though, I noticed never the butt of the joke. He's always positioned even physically as equal or more important to the other white actors who are in the scene with him. Eddie Murphy's character, Axel Foley, makes a lot of racial commentary that I imagine was very risque at that time. And he gets away with it.