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LIFE EDDIE MURPHY AND MARTIN LAWRENCE NEW PROFESSIONAL

“But I knew I was better than that.” He made a point of carefully studying the nuances of the best professional comics “until I got the urge and the courage to get back on stage.” “The first time I ever got on, I bombed bad! And I thought I would never get on stage again,” he laughs. He honed his innate talent on comedy club stages. “I felt like if I followed my path that I was on and keep trying and get in doors and opportunities and seize the moments that I could do something,” he says. Lawrence says that when he decided making people laugh was his only way forward, he knew he would have to attack a career in comedy with laser-focus. “I told her, ‘Mama, either I make it in comedy or I don’t make it at all.’ And then she gave me her blessing. “I went to my mother and I told her, ‘This is what I want to do, acting and stand-up.’ And she said, ‘Well, that’s a hard field that you want to go into. “I was supposed to be in bed getting ready for school,” he remembers. I was always clowning, and then as I started getting older, I was able to make my friends laugh in the streets.” As a teen, he attracted crowds in his native Washington, D.C., area to watch his merciless takedowns - which onlookers loved even when he targeted them.Ī fateful late-night cable viewing of “Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip” cemented his future path. “My brother Robert, he’s probably the funniest, but my grandmother, Nana, she was so funny, and my mother,” he says.

I’m just incredibly proud of him - I’m just surprised that he didn’t have already.”ĭespite his comedic pedigree, Lawrence freely admits he’s not the funniest person in his raucous family. “He played my big brother and literally treated me like a little sister for the last 20-plus years. “He’s earned it many times over,” says his “Bad Boys 2” co-star Gabrielle Union.

LIFE EDDIE MURPHY AND MARTIN LAWRENCE NEW MOVIE

“I thought the hands and feet was it, and then I started thinking, it’d be nice to get a star one day, have my imprint in Hollywood like that.” After cultivating such an expansive body of work - from his “Def Comedy Jam” days to his eponymous ’90s sitcom to movie roles in franchises like “ Bad Boys” and “Big Momma’s House” - he says receiving the star “feels like I’m being respected, I’m being shown love and I’m being honored.” “I didn’t think about the star being something that I would get one day,” Lawrence says. The tribute wasn’t a prize he’d always had his eye on, but he admits it’s one he’d contemplated in recent years, especially after getting that other equally permanent mark of achievement, cementing his hand- and footprints in the courtyard of the TCL Chinese Theater. He’ll celebrate those accomplishments April 20 with one of the industry’s most iconic honors: a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Lawrence went the distance and then some in his 30-plus-year career in stand-up comedy, television and film. “To study your craft, to want to be good at your craft and to be excellent at it - you can reach them at heights and just be the best that you could be.” “Boxing gave me the training, the consistency and, most importantly, the focus,” Lawrence tells Variety.

He credits that pugilistic discipline for equipping him with the resilience and tenacity necessary to survive in the entertainment industry. Before deciding on comedy as his true calling, Martin Lawrence seriously considered a career as a professional boxer, even becoming a Golden Gloves contender.

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