Joseph Gordon-Levitt: It felt like I was doing a scene in a movie with Eddie Murphy, which is more thrilling than a helicopter ride in real life.
[action music playing]
[CLIP] Joseph Gordon-Levitt (as Bobby Abbott): I didn't realize the plan was gonna be to steal a chopper off the rooftop of a ******* police station!
[CLIP] Eddie Murphy (as Axel Foley): I didn't realize that you were so ****** up at flying helicopters. Otherwise, I'd have came up with a different idea.
[CLIP] Joseph Gordon-Levitt (as Bobby Abbott): I told you it was a bad idea!
Eddie Murphy: Well, when I first read it, I thought, "How are they gonna make it look like a helicopter's flying in the street?" Mark was like, "We're gonna really have a helicopter." I was like, “You're gonna have a helicopter fly in Wilshire Boulevard?” And they did it.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt: I figured it'd be fake too. I figured it'd be CGI, but it wasn't.
Eddie Murphy: I didn't think they'd do it. Yeah, we were in a rig. We were in a fake helicopter that they made.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt: I remember this scene feeling like Disneyland. Like, they built a Disneyland ride just for us.
Eddie Murphy: I felt like we were doing a scene in the movie.
[both laughing]
Joseph Gordon-Levitt: That is what it felt. Yeah. It felt like I was doing a scene in a movie with Eddie Murphy, which is more thrilling than a helicopter ride in real life.
Eddie Murphy: I don't know. And it was Sunday. A lot of that time, I might have been thinking, "This is bull****." "We got to work on a ************* Sunday on this fake *** helicopter." I remember thinking that once.
[both laughing]
[CLIP] Eddie Murphy (as Axel Foley): What the ****?! Hey!
[tires screeching, people screaming]
Eddie Murphy: I remember being impressed with how they pulled it off to make it look like we were part of all of that.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt: The real guy who flew the real helicopter seems like, A, a very skilled pilot, and B, a crazy person.
[siren wailing, bullet ricocheting]
[CLIP] Eddie Murphy (as Axel Foley): Oh! He's shooting at us!
[CLIP] Joseph Gordon-Levitt (as Bobby Abbott): I'm seriously about to pass out right now.
[CLIP] Eddie Murphy (as Axel Foley): No. No, you ain't! Hey! Hey!
Eddie Murphy: The sound that they put in to make it sound more violent than it was…
Joseph Gordon-Levitt: Yeah.
Eddie Murphy: Like a Bruce Lee movie.
[laughing]
Eddie Murphy: Pshh!
Joseph Gordon-Levitt: It's the windup.
Eddie Murphy: It wasn't that hard.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt: Like your hand is traveling so fast through the air…
Eddie Murphy: We broke the wind.
[CLIP] Joseph Gordon-Levitt (as Bobby Abbott): Can you be quiet, please?
[CLIP] Eddie Murphy (as Axel Foley): Oh, ****!
Eddie Murphy: Did we improvise this ****? Yes. Those was all right off the cuff.
[both laugh]
Joseph Gordon-Levitt: That's how brilliant--
Eddie Murphy: Oh **** just came right out. But that's actually what you'd probably say in a helicopter crash.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt: That's what… That's what I would be saying.
[CLIP] Joseph Gordon-Levitt (as Bobby Abbott): This is gonna come down hard right now.
[CLIP] Eddie Murphy (as Axel Foley): What?!
[CLIP] Joseph Gordon-Levitt (as Bobby Abbott): A hard landing!
[both screaming, exclaims]
[CLIP] Christopher McDonald (as Golfer): Hey! Excuse me!
[CLIP] Eddie Murphy (as Axel Foley): We got a little problem back here. Uh, somebody's still trapped in the helicopter.
[CLIP] Christopher McDonald (as Golfer): I'd love to help you guys. Seriously, I would. But listen, you put me in a pretty tight place here. Legally speaking. So…
[CLIP] Eddie Murphy (as Axel Foley): To hell with all that! A person is dying back there. You gotta do something, now!
Eddie Murphy: Yep, that's Axel.
[both laugh]
Eddie Murphy: That's what he does.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt: I remember the first day that we kinda got to know each other. We were doing a car scene. You're stuck in the car all day long. You don't have anything else to do but talk to each other. But, like, what I remember is speaking to someone who's had a career of the magnitude like yours. People aren't always so willing or ready to just, like, talk about movies, talk about, you know, what you've done, your career, and I was always really flattered and grateful that you were just happy to talk about stuff. Felt like I was, like, getting something really special, and it wasn't a big deal to you. And I really appreciated that.
[Eddie Murphy laughing]
Joseph Gordon-Levitt: That's all I wanted to tell you. So thank you.
Eddie Murphy: Yeah.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt: Now that the world is here watching. Thank you.
[laughs]
[CLIP] Christopher McDonald (as Golfer): Come on! What are you doing?
[CLIP] Eddie Murphy (as Axel Foley): Yeah, we gotta get the hell out of here.