Wes Anderson recently defended acting legend Bill Murray after the actor had a handful of harassment accusations made against him.
directorial debut Being Mortal, with allegations of the actor being inappropriate on set once again popping up and the film pausing production as a result. Murray confirmed the complaint in 2022 during an interview with CNBC, saying that he did something he thought was funny but that wasn’t taken that way.
“I did something I thought was funny, and it wasn’t taken that way,” Murray said during an interview at the conference with cable channel CNBC. “The company, the movie studio, wanted to do the right thing, so they wanted to check it all out, investigate it, and so they stopped the production. But as of now, we’re talking and we’re trying to make peace with each other. I think that’s where the real issue is, between our peace. We’re both professionals. We like each other’s work.
“Bill was supposed to be in the movie [‘Asteroid City’],” said Anderson. “It’s not a great thing to say, ‘Well this person was supposed to play this part.’ Once someone gets a part, you’re supposed to say, ‘Well, this is their part.’ But in this case, because there was some confusion about what happened with Bill. He was supposed to play the motel manager who Steve Carell plays, and Bill got COVID four days before he was supposed to start shooting.
“Then when Bill got better, he came to Spain,” Anderson continued. “At the end of the movie [where ‘Asteroid’ shot], we finished the movie, and Bill and I got in a car and drove to France. It was a great way to finish but it was the first time I hadn’t had him in a movie in a long time.” Murray and Anderson’s relationship goes back many years, with Murray having starred in nine of Anderson’s films, including
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