Green was just nine years old when he appeared on Saturday Night Live, where he says he had an unpleasant encounter with Murray backstage. On the YouTube show Good Mythical Morning, Green alleged that Murray “made a big fuss” about him sitting on the arm of his chair. “I was like, ‘That is absurd. I am sitting on the arm of this couch. There are several lengths of this sofa. Kindly eff off.’ And he was like, ‘That’s my chair.’” Then, Green said, Murray picked him up by his ankles and dangled him over a trash can while saying, “The trash goes in the trash can.”
“I was screaming, and I swung my arms, flailed wildly—full contact with his balls,” Green recalled. “He dropped me in the trash can, the trash can falls over. I was horrified. I ran away, hid under the table in my dressing room, and just cried.” Murray hasn’t addressed Green’s allegations.
Anjelica Huston
Oscar winner Anjelica Huston described Murray as “a shit” after working with him on Wes Anderson’s 2004 film The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou. In 2019, Huston told Vulture that while filming, Murray invited everyone in the cast except her to dinner. “I was really hurt,” she continued. “And then I think we met again in Florence, because that movie was shot all over Italy, and we were doing a scene at Gore Vidal’s house in Ravello, and [Murray] said, ‘Hey, how’ve you been? I missed you.’ I said, ‘You’re full of shit. You didn’t miss me.’ He looked all confused for a moment.” However, Huston says that Murray showed up at the funeral of her late husband, Robert Graham, and that Murray “couldn’t have been nicer that day.” “He showed up,” she said. “A lot of people didn’t.”
Solange Knowles
Murray’s alleged misdeeds at SNL continued as recently as 2016, when he appeared as a special guest. At the taping, Murray allegedly grabbed Solange Knowles’s hair, repeatedly asking the singer if her hair was a wig just after she had performed her song “Don’t Touch My Hair” as the week’s musical guest. While Solange has never publicly accused Murray of doing this, she liked tweets describing the incident from TV writer and producer Judnick Mayard, who witnessed the interaction. “Your yearly reminder that I saw Bill Murray put both his hands into Solange’s scalp after asking her three times if her hair was a wig or not,” wrote Mayard, in a tweet liked by Solange. Murray has yet to comment on these allegations.
Lucy Liu
Charlie’s Angels star Liu claims that Murray hurled “inexcusable and unacceptable” comments at her during a rehearsal on the set of the 2000 action-comedy, after a scene the pair was filming was reworked without his knowledge. Per The Times, Murray allegedly told Liu that she “couldn’t act” and Liu responded by allegedly throwing punches at the comedian. “I stood up for myself, and I don’t regret it,” she said. “Because no matter how low on the totem pole you may be or wherever you came from, there’s no need to condescend or to put other people down.” Liu told Deadline in 2021 that she has “nothing against Bill Murray” and the two saw each other at a Saturday Night Live reunion and he was “perfectly nice.” Murray shared his version of events with The Times in 2009, saying, “Look, I will dismiss you completely if you are unprofessional and working with me. When our relationship is professional, and you’re not getting that done, forget it.”
McG
Charlie’s Angels director McG (whose full name is Joseph McGinty Nichol) also apparently had his own issues with Murray on set, claiming Murray headbutted him while they were filming. “I’ve been headbutted by an A-list star. Square in the head,” Nichol told The Guardian in May 2009. “An inch later and my nose would have been obliterated.” Murray, however, claims this is completely false. “That’s bulls—! That’s complete crap!” he told The Times. “I don’t know why he made that story up. He has a very active imagination.”
Jennifer Butler Murray
During their divorce proceedings, Murray’s ex-wife Jennifer Butler Murray accused the actor of assault, alleging that the Lost in Translation star hit her in the face in November 2007 and told her she’s “lucky he didn’t kill her.” In the filing, Butler Murray also accused her ex-husband of “adultery, addiction to marijuana and alcohol, abusive behavior…sexual addictions and frequent abandonment.” At the time, Murray’s attorney, John McDougall, didn’t respond to the allegations made by Murray’s wife but released a statement regarding the divorce. “Bill Murray is deeply saddened by the breakup of his marriage with Jennifer,” said McDougall. “He and his wife made loving parents, and they are committed to the best interests of their children.” In 2008, their divorce was finalized and Butler Murray was granted primary custody of their four children.
Harold Ramis
Murray collaborated with late actor Harold Ramis on Ghostbusters, Caddyshack, and Meatballs without any apparent issues, but the duo reportedly had a falling-out while Ramis was directing Murray in Groundhog Day. Ramis’s daughter Violet Ramis Stiel detailed her father and Murray’s thorny relationship in Ghostbuster’s Daughter: Life With My Dad, Harold Ramis, writing that the pair had multiple arguments on set, including one incident where Ramis grabbed Murray by the collar, and shoved him up against a wall. “Bill was going through a difficult time in his personal life, and he and my dad were not seeing eye to eye on the tone of the film,” Stiel said, and revealed that Murray “completely shut my dad out…for the next twenty-plus years.” According to Stiel’s book, Murray reportedly attempted to reconcile with Ramis just before his death in 2014.
Rob Schneider
Another entry in the Murray-misbehaving-at-SNL annals, Rob Schneider said that Murray “absolutely hated” the cast when he returned to host in 1993. “He wasn’t very nice to us,” said Schneider on SiriusXM’s Jim Norton & Sam Roberts Show. “He hated us on Saturday Night Live when he hosted. Absolutely hated us. I mean, seething…. It was just naked rage.” Schneider went on to say Murray seemed to have a particular distaste for cast members Adam Sandler and Chris Farley. “[He] really hated Sandler,” Schneider said, speculating that Sandler’s comedy just wasn’t his “groove.” Schneider rationalized a reason why Murray, “hated Chris Farley with a passion,” suggesting that it might have had to do with Farley’s similarities with Murray’s friend and SNL costar John Belushi, both of whom died of drug overdoses at the age of 33. “I want to believe that it’s because Chris thought it was cool to be Belushi, who [was] his friend who he saw die, that he thought it was cool to be that out of control. That’s my interpretation, but I don’t really know. I don’t believe it. I only believe it 50%.”
Laura Ziskin
A producer on Bill Murray’s What About Bob?, Laura Ziskin said that she butted heads (metaphorically) with Murray and that Murray once threw her in a lake while they were filming, albeit in jest. “Bill also threatened to throw me across the parking lot and then broke my sunglasses and threw them across the parking lot,” she said in a 2003 interview with The Baltimore Sun. “I was furious and outraged at the time, but having produced a dozen movies, I can safely say it is not common behavior.” Murray did not comment on the allegations at the time.
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