"Initially, The Golden Child was a very interesting script with a lot of weird resonances," Dance recalls, "but Paramount basically chickened out. When they first screened it, it was a very different sort of film for Eddie Murphy. Paramount took too much notice of the preview audience's unease about the unfamiliarity of Eddie's character. They had gotten to know him so well through Beverly Hills Cop that they wanted the character to be much more like that. So the studio went back and reshot a lot of footage of Eddie doing 'Eddie Murphy-isms,' and put them into the picture. Then they took out a really sumptuous, weird and beautiful score by John Williams, and replaced it with something more funky. So basically what you got was Beverly Hills Cop in Tibet."
In the Golden child, Dance plays the devilish Sardo Numpsa " it was high-camp villainy, not a great intellectual exercise" he said " my job was to bring some semblance of reality to a thing that is essentially fantastical, that is, one can never forget, a vehicle for Murphy"
Dance enjoyed working with the comic superstar but admitted to feeling "a little defensive, a little guarded"...Eddie's aware ge's not an actor, although he underrates himself Dance said . "He comes from the world of standing up, rapping, selling Eddie Murphy . So there is quite a bit of diffeence between him and me"
