Deadline reported on Thursday that a complaint has been filed against actor Bill Murray for “inappropriate behavior” on the set of Being Mortal, a Searchlight film helmed by Aziz Ansari. Production on the movie was suspended on Wednesday after a letter sent to the cast and crew said that Searchlight was “made aware of a complaint” and “decided that production cannot continue at this time.”
Not much more is known about the complaint, but per Deadline it does not involve Ansari, who was the subject of a viral 2018 article describing a questionably consensual sexual encounter its author had with him. (Ansari, who maintained that her account of the night was true but that he had understood the situation differently and apologized when she told him how she felt, has since released two Netflix stand-up specials and a third season of his show, Master of None.) Ansari wrote the Being Mortal script adaptation from Atul Gawande’s nonfiction book, and the film will be his directorial debut, starring himself and Seth Rogen, who is reportedly not mentioned in the complaint either.
This isn’t the first time Murray has been accused of behaving inappropriately on the set of a movie. He has had several public feuds with his colleagues, including producer Laura Ziskin, who worked with Murray on 1991’s What About Bob? and said that he broke her sunglasses and threatened to toss her into a lake during filming. Richard Dreyfuss recalled Murray throwing an ashtray at him on the same set. The daughter of Groundhog Day director Harold Ramis wrote in her memoir that Murray grabbed Ramis’s collar and threw him against a wall during an argument they had on the 1993 film’s set. Charlie’s Angels director McG claims that Murray once headbutted him during production (Murray denies this), and he had a rumored verbal altercation with Lucy Liu while filming. Liu gave her own account of the incident last year, saying on a podcast that Murray started to “hurl insults” at her, using what she called “inexcusable and unacceptable” language. She said in the same interview that she and Murray have since reconciled and that she has “nothing against Bill Murray at all.” Of the altercation with Liu, Murray told the Times of London in 2009, “Look, I will dismiss you completely if you are unprofessional and working with me.”
The Cut has reached out to Murray’s reps for comment and will update when we hear back.
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