Pete Davidson says Eddie Murphy is the reason he became a comedian

Should you ever find yourself in a position in which you’re working with one of your childhood idols, Pete Davidson has some advice: Act nonchalant.

Davidson, 31, found himself in that unlikely position when he was tapped — alongside fellow actor Keke Palmer — to act alongside Eddie Murphy in The Pickup , a new action-comedy now streaming on Prime Video.

“I told myself, ‘You got to play it cool. If you play it cool for a couple of weeks, then you’ll be able to bond.’ I knew I couldn’t come up and say ‘Hey, I love Beverly Hills Cop ‘ and start quoting all of his movies, which I so badly wanted to do,” Davidson told Postmedia in a recent interview.

After getting her start as a performer as a child actor in Barbershop 2 and Akeelah and the Bee , Palmer just wanted to be a “profe