Should we write an obit for Bill Murray’s career?
It was just yesterday that Geena Davis revealed her horrific experience working with Bill Murray on the set of “Quick Change.” Murray supposedly offered her a massage in a hotel room meet-up.
Puck’s Eriq Gardner has reported that the complaint filed against Murray on the set of Aziz Ansari’s “Being Mortal” was a “much younger” female production staffer whom costar Bill Murray “allegedly straddled and kissed through masks.”
After the official complaint was submitted, Murray entered mediation with the anonymous woman and has just choked up just over $100,000.
Now, I have to sincerely apologize to Keke Palmer for taking a lead and then running with it. It was very unfair to her, and her silence on the whole matter only enhanced suspicions in the industry. If you recall, during the summer, Ankler’s Jeff Sneider mentioned in his “Hot Mic” podcast that it was Palmer who filed the complaint against Bill Murray on the set of “Being Mortal.”
Palmer’s kept quiet all these months, never denying any of these rumors, despite being the figure whom many saw connected to the complaint against Murray.
Turns out, it was not Palmer.
Sneider has apologized. Jeffrey Wells has apologized. Others have apologized online.
Back to Murray, do we still believe he was let go of “Asteroid City” because he got COVID? He was replaced by Steve Carrell. However, if you take a closer look at the timeline, does it really compute?
Back in October 2021, Murray was live-streamed at the New York Film Festival alongside Anderson, Adrian Brody, and others from the set of “Asteroid City”. Not only that, he’s the person who revealed the title of the film during a BFI Q&A last November.
Murray has “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” next year, maybe they’ll just replace his already-shot scenes with another actor or keep them. Other than that, he’s got nothing else lined up. Don’t expect him to be cast in anything else any time soon.
He’s been a hotshot actor since the mid ‘70s, or for nearly 47 years. He’s supposed to be wealthy so no worries on that end. Maybe he’ll resort to low-budget filmmaking, if that’s what he desires. Nobody from his tight-nit entourage will disown him, it’s not like he committed Weinstein-level sins, but his big studio filmmaking days are more than likely over.
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