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42 PRODUCTION SOUND & VIDEO – Winter 2025 PS&V: You did two very different projects, Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F and Captain America: Brave New World. But first tell me about working with Eddie Murphy. Willie Burton: It's always nice to work with Eddie. I've done four or five films with him, so it's like a family getting together again, and it was a nice project to work on. I had my ace team, Douglas Shamburger and Adam Mohundro, which makes my life a lot easier. I get to sit back a little bit more and let them do their thing. I've worked with Eddie enough that we have to be prepared to boom a lot. He does not like wireless microphones, especially if he knows you can use the boom. So, if you just put a mic on him, just to put a mic on him, he'll say, no. You use the boom for the shot. What we try to do is anticipate. Fortunately, he wore a jacket the majority of the time. So we wired the jacket. We get the jacket, put the transmitter in, and the microphone under the collar. It's all nice and clean. No clothes rustle. All that good stuff. But then he's wears another jacket, and we wire that okay, he's got two jackets wired. We're fine. Then Fetteroff Colen, Eddie's personal costumer, comes to the set with another jacket. Now there's three jackets. Wait a minute, where's the An Interview Willie Burton Captain America: Brave New World poster; Courtesy of Marvel Studios/Disney+ Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F poster; Courtesy of Netflix