Geena Davis Reveals Details of Bill Murray's Alleged Set Abuse
Geena Davis is opening up about Bill Murray‘s alleged harassment.
The 66-year-old actress previously opened up in her memoir back in October of 2021, saying the 72-year-old actor allegedly harassed her while filming 1990′s Quick Change.
Now, in an appearance on On With Kara Swisher, she’s opening up about more the alleged incidents.
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“I went to meet with Bill Murray and his co-director and a producer in a hotel suite. And, uh, I came in and went to sit down with everybody sitting there. But Bill Murray popped up and said, ‘Hey, have you ever tried the thumper?’ And I’m like, ‘What? No. What’s that?’ ‘Well come try it.’ ‘No, no, no,’” she said.
She said he pointed to the bed where there was “a giant massage device with big handles on it,” allegedly instructing her: “Lay down here. I wanna try it on you.”
“I’m like, ‘No, no, no thank you.’ And he keeps at it. And I keep saying ‘No’ to the point where I would’ve had to scream at him, ‘Stop f-cking asking me! I am not doing it. Do you understand?’ Which I was far too timid to do. So I perched on the corner of the bed and let him do it, and he did it for like one second, and then didn’t ask how I liked it or anything. So I realized it was just to see if he could force me to do something inappropriate,” she explained.
Geena added the co-director and the producer who were in the hotel suite did nothing to stop him: “And I looked to them hoping they would say, ‘Come on, Bill, give it up’ or something,” she explained.
She explained another incident, allegedly during the first day of filming.
“We were shooting a huge scene out on an intersection in Manhattan with hundreds of extras and giant crew and all that stuff. And they said, ‘We’re ready for you to come to set.’ And I said, ‘Well, costumes asked me to wait here one second. Can I do that, or should I come with you?’” she said.
Geena went on to say she was given permission by the assistant director to stay and wait for costumes.
“Seconds later, Bill Murray — in a full clown costume, by the way — slams into the trailer with rage coming out of his eyeballs and starts screaming at me and swearing at me, ‘Get the f-ck out there! What the f-ck are you doing? Move! Move!’ And he got behind me and screamed in my ear, ‘Move! Move faster! Move it!’ And we’re getting to this intersection where there’s hundreds of people watching this, and he keeps it up and keeps it up until he says, ‘Stand there’ and points to a mark on the pavement and starts shooting,” she said, adding she was “literally shaking.”
“Talking about it actually, it’s still — it’s very emotional for me because I felt so ashamed, you know, for somebody who wants to do things right. You know?” she reflected.
She’s not the only one who has called out Bill Murray.
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