Bill Murray, the 71-year-old film star and early Saturday Night Live cast member, spoke to CNBC on Saturday about the recent production shutdown of the film Being Mortal. The film reportedly came to a halt last month due to an alleged complaint about his “inappropriate behavior.”
“I did something I thought was funny and it wasn’t taken that way,” he told the network’s Becky Quick. He also referred to the incident with his female co-worker, who has not yet been named, as a “difference of opinion.”
The movie studio decided to conduct an investigation, Murray noted, which is what suspended the shoot midway through production. “As of now we are talking, and we are trying to make peace with each other,” the actor said. “We’re both professionals, we like each other’s work,” he added, then said, “We like each other, I think.”
But he noted that if the two “can’t really get along and trust each other, there’s no point in going further, working together, or making the movie.”
He referred to this episode as “quite an education,” and said he’s been doing “not much else but thinking about it for the last week or two.”
“The world is different than it was when I was a little kid,” he continued. “What I thought was funny as a little kid isn’t necessarily what is funny now. Things change and the times change. It’s important to me to figure it out. And the most important thing is that it’s best for the other person.”
He concluded with some optimism—“I think we’re going to make peace”—and then, referring to himself, said: “It’s a sad dog that can’t learn anymore. That’s a sad puppy. I don’t want to be that sad dog, and I have no intention of it.”
Murray then clarified that he was mostly in dialogue with his female colleague, and not so much the studio. “First things first,” he said about that. He added that, in his life, he’s always learned much more from his mistakes than his successes.
Being Mortal, should it continue, will be Aziz Ansari’s first feature film as a director. He also wrote the script, adapting it from the 2014 non-fiction bestseller Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End from surgeon and public health researcher Atul Gawande. The film, set up at Searchlight Pictures (which falls under Disney’s larger umbrella) co-stars Seth Rogen and Keke Palmer.
Murray spoke with CNBC at the annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting in Omaha, Nebraska. Quick noted that it was Murray’s first time “at the meeting,” but that he has known Warren Buffett, the chairman and CEO of the multinational conglomerate holding company, for a long time. The duo were seen getting ice cream together in 2019, and they apparently shot a short skit that was shown at this year’s event.
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