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Eddie Murphy Names The Film He Feels Like An 'Idiot' For Turning Down

“Now, every time I see it, I feel like an idiot,” the "Dolemite Is My Name" star told "The Tonight Show" host Jimmy Fallon.
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SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE -- "Eddie Murphy" Episode 1777 -- Pictured: Host Eddie Murphy as Buckwheat during the "Masked Singer" Sketch on Saturday, December 21, 2019 -- (Photo by: Will Heath/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)
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SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE -- "Eddie Murphy" Episode 1777 -- Pictured: Host Eddie Murphy as Buckwheat during the "Masked Singer" Sketch on Saturday, December 21, 2019 -- (Photo by: Will Heath/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)

Actor Eddie Murphy has named the one movie role he regrets turning down.

The “Dolemite Is My Name” star revealed on Friday’s broadcast of “The Tonight Show” that he was initially offered the lead part of Eddie Valiant in the 1988 hit “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?”

But he rejected the role because he thought the concept of the movie sounded weird.

“I was like, ‘What? Animation and people, that just sound like bullshit to me,’” he recalled to host Jimmy Fallon.

The part eventually went to British actor Bob Hoskins and the movie ended up winning three Academy Awards.

“Now, every time I see it, I feel like an idiot,” added Murphy, who is hosting this week’s episode of “Saturday Night Live.”

Check out the interview above.

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