Hollywood is a lot more buttoned up and professional on movie sets these days. Major productions now have lawyers and intimacy coordinators and professional stunt teams. They’ve put the infrastructure in place to try to make the experience of making movies as safe and comfortable as possible, but that was not always the case. Even thirty years ago, the biggest stars in the world were getting thrown into the deep end, like, for example, Bill Murray when he was bitten twice by a groundhog.
Whispers of the former SNL star getting his finger chomped on the set of Groundhog Day have been going around for decades, but Murray just readdressed it and told the full story on Hot Ones. They were filming the scene where Murray drives his car with the groundhog when the animal bit down on his finger, tearing right through his glove. The next day when they reshot it, Murray tried to protect himself, and the exact same thing happened again.
