{"id":54316,"date":"2024-07-03T15:59:03","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T13:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=2066622"},"modified":"2024-07-04T08:24:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T06:24:00","slug":"returning-beverly-hills-cop-stars-it-was-pretty-much-a-family-reunion","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/returning-beverly-hills-cop-stars-it-was-pretty-much-a-family-reunion\/","title":{"rendered":"Returning Beverly Hills Cop stars: \u201cIt was pretty much a family reunion\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Judge Reinhold and John Ashton spoke to RadioTimes.com about returning to the franchise for the legacy sequel. <\/p>

By Patrick Cremona\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Wednesday, 03 July 2024 at 13:59 PM<\/p>

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Eddie Murphy is reprising one of his most iconic roles in the recently released Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F<\/a>, playing Detroit police lieutenant Axel Foley for the first time in three decades.<\/p>\n

And Murphy isn\u2019t the only familiar face returning for the sequel, with Judge Reinhold and John Ashton back in their popular roles as Billy Rosewood and John Taggart from the original films, albeit in rather reduced roles compared to their previous appearances.<\/p>\n

Ahead of the release on Netflix, that pair spoke to RadioTimes.com<\/a> \u2013 and revealed that deciding to come back was not a difficult decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce we read the script, it was easy,\u201d Reinhold explained during an exclusive interview. \u201cThe new writer\u2026 Will Beall, was an ex LA detective and had a really great street sense about it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted to use the first movie as a template [and] we were hoping to achieve that kind of success with it. And we both felt really good reading the script and what we were getting into, especially that Jerry Bruckheimer was back producing it. And that gave us a comfort zone.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Eddie Murphy as Axel Foley in Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F.<\/span><\/figcaption> Netflix<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

Ashton added that he had a meeting with director Mark Molloy \u2013 who is making his feature debut \u2013 a month before production started, which reassured him he had definitely made the right choice to return.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first thing he said to me [was]: \u2018I want to bring it back to the \u201980s,’\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I went: \u2018Perfect, that\u2019s great.\u2019 And Jerry was involved and I knew Eddie was not going to do it unless the script was right. So I read the script and I said to Jerry, \u2018I\u2019m in\u2019. So I couldn\u2019t wait to go to work.\u201d<\/p>\n

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