- Invoice Murray made new feedback about previous misconduct allegations made towards him in an interview with The New York Instances printed on April 5
- The incident occurred in 2022 on the set of Being Mortal
- The actor mentioned he thinks he has realized from the expertise, including that he “doesn’t go too many days or perhaps weeks with out pondering of what occurred”
Invoice Murray mentioned his alleged misconduct incident on the set of the movie Being Mortal in 2022 “nonetheless bothers” him.
The actor, 74, was accused of misconduct by a youthful feminine crew member in April 2022, and he reportedly reached a settlement of simply over $100,000 with the accuser that October. A report printed on the time claimed that Murray “straddled” the lady on a prop mattress and kissed her on the mouth by means of masks worn for on-set COVID security protocol.
The incident resulted in an inner on-set investigation, and the Aziz Ansari-led undertaking, which was being produced by the Disney-owned Searchlight Footage, was finally suspended indefinitely.
Now, in a brand new candid interview with The New York Instances printed on Saturday, April 5, Murray mentioned he felt “barbecued” by the expertise — regardless of saying he had tried to “make peace” with the affected events.
“I don’t go too many days or perhaps weeks with out pondering of what occurred. … I dunno what prompted me to do it,” he advised the Instances. “It’s one thing that I had carried out to another person earlier than, and I believed it was humorous, and each time it occurred, it was humorous.”
“I used to be carrying a masks, and I gave her a kiss, and he or she was carrying a masks. It wasn’t like I touched her, nevertheless it was simply, I gave her a kiss by means of a masks. And he or she wasn’t a stranger,” he recalled, including that he ate lunch with the individual “on varied days of the week.”
When requested if he thought he had realized from the expertise, the Groundhog Day star replied: “I believe so.”
He added: “You possibly can train an outdated canine new methods. However it was a terrific disappointment, as a result of I believed I knew somebody, and I didn’t. I actually thought it was gentle. I believed it was humorous. To me it’s nonetheless humorous, the concept that you may give somebody a kiss with a masks on. It’s nonetheless silly. It’s all it was.”
ipromiseyoumedia reached out to Murray’s lawyer and Disney for touch upon April 5, however didn’t obtain an instantaneous response.
Elsewhere in his interview, Murray went on to problem different public narratives about him — together with particularly addressing a declare wherein he’s mentioned to have thrown an ashtray at actor Richard Dreyfuss after they labored collectively on the 1991 movie What About Bob?
“You possibly can inform that story as a lot as you want, nevertheless it’s by no means going to be true,” Murray advised the Instances. “I did hearth a glass, however I threw it on the ceiling. We have been in a townhouse on the set of What About Bob? and I didn’t hearth it at anybody. I threw it up in a far nook of the townhouse, assuming it’d break upon contact with the ceiling and the partitions, however I didn’t throw it at anybody.”
“If I’d thrown it at Dreyfuss, I’d have hit him,” he added.
Murray additionally addressed a previous declare from actress Geena Davis that he had yelled at her in entrance of about “300 folks” on a film set, calling it “outrageous.”
“When somebody has an episode like mine on Being Mortal, the world goes trying to find extra proof that this individual is a monster. An absolute monster. Properly, I’ve had interactions with lots of of 1000’s of individuals over 40, 50 years. Now, you’ll be able to give you half a dozen [with bad experiences]. Should you actually labored, you’d most likely give you a pair dozen,” he mentioned.
