Bill Murray is thinking of “being deadly” of allegations: “always funny”

Bill Murray reflected on allegations and the possible regulations of $ 100,000 which derailed and then closed the adaptation of the Disney procedures of Be mortal in 2022.

In a new interview with the New York Times‘ podcast The dailyTHE Marmot day The actor explained how “raw stuff” is to represent shabby characters, like his roles On the rocks And FriendIts latest version opposite Naomi Watts.

“When you have played like a horrible flipper, you know that” hey, I was this horrible flipper and I did not see it and I was not aware of it “,” he said.

The commentary then encouraged the interviewer to question Murray on what happened on the old set of director of Aziz Ansari, who also presented actors like Seth Rogen and Keke Palmer.

“I don’t spend too many days or weeks without thinking about what happened Be mortal“, He started. Continuing, he added: “I thought I was trying to make peace, I found myself, in my mind, to make barbecue. Someone with whom I worked with me, I had lunch at various days of the week and so on. It was covid, we all wore masks and we were all blocked in this single room while listening to this crazy scene. And I don’t know what prompted me to do it, it’s something I had done to someone else before and I thought it was funny and each time it was happening, it was funny. I wore a mask and gave her a kiss and she wore a mask. It was not as if I had touched it, it was right (making smoofing sound), I gave it a kiss through a mask, through another mask, to another person. And she was not a stranger.

The Oscar candidate said: “It always bothers me because this film was arrested by the, it doesn’t matter that they call – human rights, HR Disney Corporation – which is probably a little more strident than other countries. How is someone supposed to know something like that?

When asked if he had removed something from the experience, Murray replied, “You know, you can teach an old dog new things to an old dog. But I just thought it was a disappointment. It was a big disappointment because I thought I knew someone and I didn’t do it. And I certainly thought it was light and I thought it was funny.

Murray also defended the action, saying that he was trying to bring a “lightness” to a film shoot exploring a “miserable” subject. (Be mortal was based on the eponymous non-fiction book of Atul Gawande on end of life and palliative care.)

When the interviewer also mentioned Murray’s past accounts difficult to work with on the set (Lucy Liu recently discussed his experience), Murray also raised his shoulders. Addressing an allegation according to which he threw an ashtray at Richard Dreyfuss on the shooting of 1991 And bob?Murray replied that he was more targeted on the ceiling and that the story was “would never be true”.

“If I had launched him Dreyfuss, I would have struck him,” he said. (For his part, Dreyfuss said in recent years that he was ready to forgive the actor.)

Addressing the affirmations of irregularity of Geena Davis, Murray called them “scandalous”. When Times The journalist said he didn’t need to “browse the list”, the first Ghosts Star added: “When someone has an episode like mine on this subject Be mortal Something, the world is trying to look for more evidence than this person is a monster – an absolute monster. Well, I had interactions with hundreds of thousands of people out of 40, 50. Now you can find half a dozen. If you have really worked, you would probably find a few dozens of dozen ”, which implies that stories on the set are not representative of all of his personality.

Murray previously discussed the suspension of Be mortal. In 2022, immediately after the events in April, he told CNBC: “I did something that I thought I was funny, and it was not taken like that. The company, the film studio, wanted to do the right thing, so they wanted to check everything, investigate, and therefore they stopped production. Others, I think, and if you can’t really hear yourself and trust yourself, there is no need to go further to work together or make a film too. “”