A series of complaints fall on the actor of Ghostbusters, the American comedian Bill Murray. To the anonymous complaint of an assistant of the film ‘Being Mortal’ who accuses him of improper touching, the statements of the actresses Geena Davis, Lucy Liu and now Seth Green were added, who point out him for having had a hostile behavior on the sets . “Bill Murray’s eternal joke is no longer funny: the actor ruins his career between complaints and allegations of harassment,” says El País.
Filming on his latest movie, Being Mortal, was halted in April after an employee reported Murray for inappropriate touching. The production company Searchlight Pictures, currently a subsidiary of Disney, released a statement. “After reviewing the circumstances, it has been decided that production cannot continue at this time.” The Puck website revealed that Murray had paid $100,000 in an out-of-court settlement for harassment to an employee of that production. The woman would have said that she felt “horrified” because the actor’s actions “were completely sexual.”
In an interview with the BBC, Murray defended himself. “There was a difference of opinion with a woman he was working with. She did something that I considered funny and it was not understood that way […]. The world is very different from what it was when I was a child. You know, what seemed funny before doesn’t have to be funny now. Things change, so it’s important for me to learn.”
On the set of ‘Charlie’s Angels’, the actor had mistreated Lucy Liu, according to the actress’ testimony. “Why are you here? You don’t know how to act,” Murray told him. On the Los Angeles Times’ Asian Enough podcast, she recounted Murray insulting her on set. “While we’re shooting the scene, Bill starts hurling insults and I won’t go into the details, but he just went on and on. She wasn’t going to just sit there and accept it. So yes, I stood up for myself and I don’t regret it. Because no matter how low on the totem pole you are or where you come from, there is no need to patronize or put other people down. And I wouldn’t back down, and I shouldn’t have either.”
Seth Green: “He threw me in the garbage can”
In the Good Mythical Morning series, actor and screenwriter Seth Green recalled an episode of child abuse on a show in which Murray was hosting. “When I was nine years old, I did a spot on Saturday Night Live about what kids thought about Christmas parties. He saw me sitting on the arm of his chair and made a real fuss about why I was located there,” Green explained. “And I was like ‘this is absurd, I’m barely on the arm of this chair, there’s a lot more space here,’ but he just said it was his chair.”
According to the actor, his mother asked him to leave the place, but he refused and this unleashed the actor’s anger. “Then he grabbed me by the ankles, hung me over a garbage can and said ‘the dirt is thrown here.’ I was screaming, and I was waving my arms. Then he threw me in the garbage can, I was horrified. I ran out, hid under the dressing room table, and just started crying.”
The US media point out that Bill Murray has lost professional relationships, such as the one he had with comedian Rob Schneider, who claimed that he behaved as if he “hated” the cast of Saturday Night Live (1993). “He wasn’t very nice to us. He hated us on Saturday Night Live when he was hosting. Absolutely,” reported The Guardian.
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