In her memoir “Dying of Politeness”, the 66-year-old actress recalled some episodes that happened during the shooting of the film “Let’s run away with the swag” in 1990, starting with the audition made with the actor in a hotel suite.
Working with Bill Murray on “Let’s get away with the loot” was not at all a pleasant experience for Geena Davis who, already during the audition for the film – of which the 72-year-old actor was also co-director with Howard Franklin – had found herself in a somewhat embarrassing situation. To tell the episodes related to the 1990 film was the same actress in her memoir “Dying of Politeness”. According to her bio, when she auditioned for the part of Phyllis Potter, Davis – who was 34 at the time – “met Murray in a hotel suite and he greeted her while holding a massage device. called “The Thumper,” which he insisted on using on her, despite her energetic refusal. ” The worrying meeting was then followed by another incident even more humiliating for the actress who, according to her story, would have been targeted with insults during the filming by the same actor for an alleged delay. “While they were filming outside Murray went to Davis in her trailer and started yelling at her, because she was late (she was waiting for the cloakroom guys) and kept yelling at her as she rushed to set and then when she got there too. there, in front of hundreds of people from the cast, the crew and simple passers-by ».
Reflecting on the hearing and about how she could have handled it differently, 66-year-old Davis admitted in a recent Times interview that “the way (Murray) behaved in the first meeting was bad. I should have left or I should have strongly defended myself, in which case I would not have gotten the part. I could have avoided that treatment if I had known how to react or what to do during the audition. But I was so non-aggressive that I didn’t… ». For the moment Murray – who was accused last year by actress Lucy Liu of insulting her in an “unacceptable” and “unforgivable” way during the filming of “Charlie’s Angels” – has not responded to Davis’s words. In any case, his unpleasant attitude on the set seems to have also endangered his next film, “Being Mortal”, whose shooting was suspended in April 2021 due to a complaint about Murray’s alleged inappropriate behavior on set. , although no further details have been provided. Apparently, the film is still on hiatus and it is unknown if it will ever be finished.
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