One interaction is still haunting Geena Davis.
The Oscar winner, 66, in a new interview with People looked back at the fight she and Bill Murray had on the set of 1990′s “Quick Change” — an incident which, prior to her new book, “Dying of Politeness: A Memoir,” Davis had “never spoken about … publicly.”
“There were easily more than 300 people there — and Murray was still screaming at me, for all to see and hear,” Davis told the outlet of the ordeal, which followed their less-than-professional first meeting in a hotel suite.
Davis recalled in the memoir that the “Ghostbusters” star, 72, wanted to use a massage device on her despite the former’s protestations, Murray “wouldn’t relent,” according to the magazine.
“I realized with profound sadness that I didn’t yet have the ability to withstand this onslaught — or to simply walk out,” wrote Davis, noting that the actor ultimately “placed the thing on my back for a total of about two seconds,” according to People.
“For publicity, I saw him after we made the movie, but other than that, I haven’t seen him or spoken to him,” Davis, recently honored with the Television Academy’s Governor’s Award for “efforts to promote gender balance and foster inclusion throughout the entertainment industry” via the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, told the magazine.
“I figure it’s sort of rather universally known that he could be difficult to work with,” she said. “And so I don’t feel like I’m busting him in a way that will necessarily shock him. I think he knows very well the way he can behave.”
Other notoriously unpleasant on-set experiences allegedly involving Murray include earlier this year when production on “Being Mortal” was suspended due to what the actor described as “a difference of opinion with a woman I’m working with.
“I did something I thought was funny, and it wasn’t taken that way,” he said back in April.
“Charlie’s Angels” co-star Lucy Liu last year also recalled when she said Murray decided to “hurl insults” at her on the set of the 2000s action flick.
“Some of the language was inexcusable and unacceptable, and I was not going to just sit there and take it,” the Emmy nom, 53, told the Los Angeles Times’ “Asian Enough” podcast.
Perhaps most infamously, Murray and fellow “Saturday Night Live” alum Chevy Chase engaged in a backstage fistfight in 1978.
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