There have been a lot of reports of Bill Murray being difficult to work with, and indeed we reported one of those very stories not that long ago. Just recently though Bill has had his say about his perceived awkwardness, and much like Samuel L Jackson‘s recent frankness, I think he’s got a point, in this example anyway.
Associated Press through Yahoo put forward Bill’s comments on a recent outburst on set:
Recently on the set of his still-untitled film for director Jim Jarmusch, Murray got into a fracas with the location manager when he arrived at a rented house for a scene with child actors and discovered that there was no heat. When he started a fire in the fireplace, the location manager told him to stop.
“‘Who are you?'” Murray told her. “She said, ‘I’m locations.’ I said, ‘Well, if locations had done their job and made sure it was warm enough for these people, we wouldn’t be lighting a fire in the fireplace.'”
But at the wrap party, Murray approached the woman again. “I said, ‘You know, we had our moment, and I don’t apologize for that for a second.'” But she had excelled at other aspects of her job, and Murray told her so. “I wanted to let her know I could see it both ways.”
Sounds pretty reasonable to me, and that Bill was just being a nice guy to the cold crew. Still, there’s always spin on every story isn’t there? He goes on to make another excellent point, and one which I think I’ll hold onto for future use:
“If it keeps obnoxious people away, that’s fine,” he tells Time magazine in its editions on sale Monday. “It makes me think of that line you catch more flies with honey than vinegar. People say this to you with a straight face, and I always say, ‘Who. Wants. Flies?'”
