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Eddie Murphy Reveals Oprah Winfrey Had No Idea He Was The Same Person Who Played the Old Jewish Barber in ‘Coming to America’ Because Of The Good Makeup. Jimmy Kimmel: “Just with the guys in the barbershop, have you ever talked about that?” “Oh, no. It takes six hours to do those makeups.” “To do a whole movie, it would take three months. To do a whole movie with those people would take like a year.” “But you know what’s the trip? It’s kind of thankless because a lot of people don’t know that that’s us in those makeups.” “Last week I was doing the other interview with Oprah, and she was like, ‘Oh, the…’ I said something about the barbershop and said, ‘We’re playing, and I’m that Jewish man.’ She was like, ‘Who do you mean?’” “I said, ‘Oh, yeah, I’m the old Jewish guy in the barbershop.’ She was like, ‘What?’ And she couldn’t believe it.” “She’s seen the original Coming to America and this one, and all this time didn’t know.” “Those makeups are amazing. They were originally designed by Rick Baker, the genius. You can’t tell, you can’t see it. I could go talk to you, and you won’t know that it’s makeup.”