Taylour Paige Is Ready to Read More Jung

In the new movie “Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F,” Taylour Paige plays Jane Foley, Eddie Murphy’s daughter. But the 33-year-old actress grew up idolizing a different Murphy-helmed film franchise.

“‘The Nutty Professor’ — I probably watched that movie like 200 times on VHS as a kid,” she said.

“I recited every line to him almost every day I shot with him,” added Paige, who previously starred in the 2021 movie “Zola” as the title character. “I had a lot of questions, like, ‘How do you play six to eight people believably?’”

Paige, who lives in Miami, was calling from Toronto, where she was filming the “It” prequel series “Welcome to Derry.” It’s another franchise to which she wasn’t previously attuned — she hadn’t seen any Pennywise films, nor had she read Stephen King’s 1986 novel that started it all. “I’m a scaredy cat,” she said.

While she might not be up on clown-based horror, she lives for soaking up knowledge of vintage cinema, Gnosticism and Jungian psychology. These are edited excerpts from the conversation.

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Magnesium Tablets

I find magnesium really helpful when I have to travel, or I’m jet lagged, or I have to be on set early and need to go to bed and I’m in a completely different time zone. It also helps dial up my digestion, and it regulates the nervous system.

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Walks

I’m very grateful to have legs and to be able to walk, and I don’t say this lightly. I walk everyday, three to five miles. I find it inspiring. You can observe and take in and exist. I’ll listen to music or, right now, I’m listening to the Gnostic scriptures. I have dogs (Aretha, a pit bull, Baba Joo, a Chiweenie and Juice, a pit bull-bulldog) which compel me to walk, but I also love taking a simple hand-in-hand stroll with my husband.