Bill Murray, on his groundhog day: wave of accusations of harassment and inappropriate behavior

the iconic actor Bill Murray He lives the most complicated days of his career in the midst of a wave of complaints for inappropriate behavior and harassment. Last week, the movie he was working on, “Being Mortal,” was suspended due to such conduct by the 72-year-old Murray.

The film’s production company, Searchlight Pictures, made this decision after a three-day investigation triggered by a complaint from a female employee on set. As a result of this news, in recent days more testimonies of actors and actresses who have suffered these inappropriate attitudes by Murray have been known.

Speaking to CNBC, Murray said he acted in a way he thought was funny, but was “not taken in such a way.” “The world is different than it was when I was a little boy,” he lamented. As revealed by the ‘Puck’ website, Murray paid $100,000 to the woman who denounced these behaviors, who was “much younger than him.” A source from the shoot qualifies the actor’s practices as “completely sexual”.

Before this accusation, the actress Lucy Liu claimed that Murray insulted her during the filming of ‘Charlie’s Angels’, while the actor Richard Dreyfuss revealed that he had thrown an ashtray at her while they were working on the set of ‘What About Bob?’ For Liu, the attitudes she suffered from Murray were “inexcusable and unacceptable.”

This week, the actor Seth Green It has also been added to the complaints about the actor’s behavior. The episode that he experienced goes back to when he was just 9 years old, during a recording of ‘Saturday Night Live’. The young Green was sitting on the arm of a chair on the set, at which point Murray appeared protesting that this chair, he said, was his.

“He picked me up by my ankles, held me upside down and hung me from a rubbish bin. He told me: ‘Garbage goes in the garbage can‘. I was screaming, I moved my arms, I waved them wildly, I had full contact with his balls. He threw me in the bin and the bin fell. He was horrified. I ran away, hid under the table in my dressing room and just cried,” he recalls.

Rob Schneider, also of ‘Saturday Night Live,’ claimed that Murray “absolutely hated” to everyone on the show when he came back as a guest star, especially Adam Sandler and Chris Farley.

Now it remains to be seen if these have been the latest accusations that come to Murray for his behavior throughout his extensive career in front of the cameras. The actor is widely known for his roles in ‘Trapped in Time’, ‘Ghostbusters’, ‘Lost in Translation’ or ‘Space Jam’.