Eddie Murphy and Pete Davidson flex comedy muscle tissues in ‘The Pickup’ – SABC Information

Actor-comedians Eddie Murphy and Pete Davidson team up for “The Pickup”, a heist movie that sees them sparring as a pair of incompatible armoured truck drivers.

Starring opposite Murphy, 64, was “a bucket list thing” for Davidson, 31, who had admired Murphy’s work since he was seven.

Unlike their characters, the two had much in common.

“Pete comes from SNL. He’s a stand-up comic. We’re both from the East Coast,” says Murphy.

“I love to get into a scene with somebody else that’s funny, improvise with them and start playing, I love it.”

On a routine round of cash pickups, Murphy’s Russell and Davidson’s Travis get targeted by criminals.

Things get personal when Travis discovers that the thieves are led by his one-night-stand from the night before, played by Keke Palmer, and the life of Russell’s hot-headed wife, played by Eva Longoria, comes under threat. The duo must pull together to save the day.

The script, by Kevin Burrows and Matt Mider, served as their blueprint and director Tim Story encouraged them to go off it, the two said.

“We would do one as written and then Tim and everyone was like, ‘Just go nuts’ and we would end up just trying to one-up each other, we were just trying to make each other laugh,” said Davidson.