Bill Murray would he act as a tyrant on film sets? Last April, the production of the next film in which the actor was to play was interrupted because of a complaint brought against him, alleging a “inappropriate behavior”. This time it’s the actress Geena Davis who remembers, in his memoirs to be published, his painful first steps on a set alongside the actor, in 1990. A year before the release of the masterful film by Ridley Scott Thelma et Louiseshe says she had a “bad” experience with Bill Murray.
In Dying of PolitenessGeena Davis recounts her very first meeting with the actor, for the filming of their detective comedy Quick Change. She shared this curious episode at Timeswho tells : Bill Murray welcomed Geena Davis into a hotel suite by greeting her with a Thumper brand massage tool, insisting on using it on her. The actress recounts having had to refuse several times, in the face of her insistence. On the film set, some time later, he would then have humiliated her in front of the entire film crew by shouting at her. Knowing that his delay was due to an expectation related to the costume team, he would have continued to yell at her.
“It wasn’t my fault”
“It was bad,” comments the actress in the columns of Times. “I should have left or defended myself deeply, in which case I would not have had the role. I could have avoided this treatment if I had known how to react or what to do during the audition. But, you know, I was so non-confrontational that I just didn’t…” she continued before the reporter highlighted her self-blaming reasoning. “Yeah, exactly, it wasn’t my fault,” Geena Davis eventually admits.
This is not the first time that the behavior of the actor, now 72 years old, has been talked about. The actress Lucy Liu had told the insults […] inexcusable and unacceptable » that he would have uttered towards her during a rehearsal for Charlie’s Angels in 2000. Nine years later, the director of the film, Joseph McGinty Nichol, confided to the Guardian having received a “whim” from Bill Murray.
The latest episode dates back to last April, when his “inappropriate behavior” was the cause of the suspension of Being Mortalrealized by Aziz Ansari. “I did something that I thought was funny, but it wasn’t perceived that way” by a woman present during the filming, had then reacted the actor. “The world is different from the one it was when I was a child. What was funny then is not necessarily funny now. Times are changing and it is important that I understand that. »