Bet You Didn’t Know: Secrets Behind The Making Of “The Nutty Professor”
The Dinner Table Scene
Knowing that Eddie Murphy played practically every member of the Klump family, with the exception of this boy you see here, it left many wondering how he did it. He explained during the Actor’s Studio interview.
“I would do like a character each day. And I’d have a tennis ball and I talked to the tennis ball. And the next I would have what I did the day before in my ear and I would talk to the tennis ball and look around. It was like making a big jigsaw puzzle.”