In a recent podcast appearance, Geena Davis explained what making Bill Murray’s movie Quick Changeentailed
, Davis described her time with Murray, and, put simply, it sounds awful. Davis paints an abusive picture of the actor many want to believe is a fun-loving guy who could interrupt a wedding at any moment. To Davis’ mind, he’s more of a “pushing women to do things that would make them uncomfortable” guy.I went to meet with Bill Murray and his co-director and a producer in a hotel suite,” Davis told Swisher. “And, uh, I came in and went to sit down with everybody sitting there.
Unfortunately, the other two men in the room weren’t much help either. “And I looked to them hoping they would say, ‘Come on, Bill, give it up’ or something.”All you need to do is sign up with your email and boom: credit for your preorder on a new Samsung device.Murray’s domineering continued onto the first day of shooting. The first day was complicated, she said, shooting in Manhattan with hundreds of extras and a giant crew.
However, Murray allegedly cleared up the confusion by humiliating Davis in front of the entire production. “Seconds later, Bill Murray—in a full clown costume, by the wayslams into the trailer with rage coming out of his eyeballs and starts screaming at me and swearing at me, ‘Get the fuck out there! What the fuck are you doing? Move! Move!’” Davis said.
Obviously, people hate hearing that a beloved screen icon might not be a great person. It’s very easy to conflate feelings of appreciation for one’s work and their actual character, especially when Murray’s been playing the same character for so long that many assume that’s just who he is. But in no other industry would it be acceptable to take abuse from a boss or employer in this way, and this
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