While promoting his 2019 Netflix film Dolemite Is My Name, the Hollywood veteran quipped about being in a “semi-retired state.”
He told PEOPLE: “I still am in the semi-retired state. For maybe five or six years, I was on the couch, just doing nothing, and not planning and not trying to get anything. I had things in development, but I just was doing nothing … That means I’m never ever, ever — even if that means people love these pictures I’m doing — I’m never going to be on it like I was in my 20s. What I like to do more than anything is to not have a schedule and just be within earshot of my children. That’s my favorite dish.”
Murphy added that he was still open to movie offers — provided the right opportunities to present themselves.
He explained: “I don’t want to say I’m retired like I won’t do anything. If some great thing comes along, or if some great thing happens, some great director or some great idea, of course, I’ll make other movies. Once I get my stand-up muscle back together, I’ll always do stand-up. I’ll always have this thing to go do, but I’m never going to be doing it like I used to be all the time.”
Foxx’s last stand-up TV special was 2003’s “Jamie Foxx Unleashed: Lost, Stolen and Leaked!”
