‘I should've walked out’: Geena Davis details 'bad' experience with Bill Murray on ‘Quick Change’ set
Geena Davis has spoken about a “bad” experience with Bill Murray on the set of the 1990 film ‘Quick Change.’ The 66-year-old Oscar-winning actress made the claim as part of her new memoir ‘Dying of Politeness’ saying he behaved inappropriately during her initial audition and was overly aggressive with her on set.
In an interview with The Times, Davis said, “That was bad. The way he behaved at the first meeting… I should have walked out of that or profoundly defended myself, in which case I wouldn’t have got the part. I could have avoided that treatment if I’d known how to react or what to do during the audition. But, you know, I was so non-confrontational that I just didn’t…” When The Times reporter told Davis she was blaming herself for Murray’s behavior, she responded by saying, “Ha. Point taken. There’s no point in regretting things, and yet, here I was regretting. And yes, exactly, it wasn’t my fault.”
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As summarized by The Times via Variety, “She’s introduced to [Murray], she writes, in a hotel suite, where Murray greets her with something called The Thumper, a massage device he insists on using on her, despite her emphatically refusing; later, while they’re filming on location, Murray tracks Davis down in her trailer and begins screaming at her for being late (she’s waiting for her wardrobe), continues to scream at her as she hurries onto the set and even as she gets there, in front of hundreds of cast, crew, curious passers-by.”
Previous allegations
This is not the first time Murray got accused of such inappropriate conduct on a film set. Aziz Ansari’s directorial debut, 'Being Mortal,' had to stop in April of this year after Murray was accused of unspecified reports of inappropriate behavior. Murray said in an interview with IndieWire after the suspension, "I did something I thought was funny, and it wasn’t taken that way. The company, the movie studio, wanted to do the right thing, so they wanted to check it all out, investigate it, and so they stopped the production."
In 2021, 'Ally McBeal' star Lucy Liu opened up about an alleged dispute she had with Murray while filming the 2000 movie 'Charlie’s Angels.' Speaking with the LA Times‘ Asian Enough podcast, the actress said, “I was, like, ‘Wow, he seems like he’s looking straight at me.’ I couldn’t believe that it could be towards me, because what do I have to do with anything majorly important at that time? It was unjust and it was uncalled for. Some of the language was inexcusable and unacceptable, and I was not going to just sit there and take it. So, yes, I stood up for myself, and I don’t regret it,” and added, “Because no matter how low on the totem pole you may be or wherever you came from, there’s no need to condescend or to put other people down. And I would not stand down, and nor should I have and nor did I.”
