Geena Davis has some horror tales to share from working with Bill Murray.
Speaking on New York journal’s “On with Kara Swisher.” Davis informed of two particular incidents the place Murray made her extraordinarily uncomfortable whereas working with him on the 1990 comedy, Quick Change.
In the primary occasion, Davis associated how she was assembly with Murray and the Quick Change co-producers when the therapeutic massage incident occurred.
“I’m like, ‘No, no, no, thank you.’ And he keeps at it,” Davis alleged. “And I keep saying ‘No’ to the point where I would’ve had to scream at him, ‘Stop f–king asking me! I am not doing it. Do you understand?’ Which I was far too timid to do. So I perched on the corner of the bed and let him do it, and he did it for like one second, and then didn’t ask how I liked it or anything. So I realized it was just to see if he could force me to do something inappropriate,” Davis mentioned.
“I looked to them hoping they would say, ‘Come on, Bill, give it up’ or something. But they didn’t,” Davis mentioned. She added that she later found that Murray – -worried that she would have an inflated ego, having simply received an Oscar – was testing her.
The subsequent day, Murray was nonetheless taking part in video games along with her, she alleged.
“We were shooting a huge scene out on an intersection in Manhattan with hundreds of extras and giant crew and all that stuff. And they said, ‘We’re ready for you to come to set,’ ” mentioned Davis. “Well, costumes requested me to attend right here one second. Can I try this, or ought to I include you? He mentioned, ‘No, no, no.’ The AD mentioned, ‘No, go ahead. Wait here.’ “
That’s when Murray allegedly stormed into her dressing room and screamed at her.
“‘Get the f–k out there! What the f–k are you doing? Move! Move,” Davis mentioned, quoting Murray.
“And he got behind me and screamed in my ear, ‘Move! Move faster! Move it!’ And we’re getting to this intersection where there’s hundreds of people watching this, and he keeps it up and keeps it up until he says, ‘Stand there’ and points to a mark on the pavement and starts shooting,” she mentioned.
Murray later requested her what was happening, she added.
“Talking about it actually, it’s still — it’s very emotional for me because I felt so ashamed, you know, for somebody who wants to do things right. You know,” mentioned Davis.
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