While much of his interactions with strangers were positive, some were frightening.

Everybody’s staring at you," Pinchot recalled of the intense fan attention toPEOPLE.

“And people sometimes will even make a death threat.

Bronson Pinchot and Eddie Murphy in BEVERLY HILLS COP

Bronson Pinchot and Eddie Murphy in ‘Beverly Hills Cop III’.Everett

And then they say, I’ll have to kill you now.

I mean, that’s a real thing.”

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Other encounters were more surreal.

Pinchot wasn’t just a favorite among fans, but also the famous.

“Im chatting with Elton John like, ‘Whats going on?'”

They jumped out and started to make a fuss," Pinchot recalled.

I went from poverty to people driving up on the sidewalk.

I wasn’t ready.

Who’s ready for that?"

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