"I didn't know if it was an insult or a compliment," Murphy said of Poitier's comment. "I was like, 'What?'" Eddie Murphy ... same time the Trading Places star burst onto the scene in the 1980s.

People in my industry were ecstatic to see the film Trading Places, hopeful it would help the public understand what we did. But instead, the film took things in a whole different direction, and ...