Geena Davis Recounts Bill Murray Screaming At Her On Set Of 'Quick Change'

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Geena Davis is opening up and recalling an audition with Bill Murray for Quick Change. Recounting the process, the 66-year-old Oscar winner remembers it as a truly bad audition before opening up about what it was like on set for her. Click inside to read more… In her new memoir, “Dying of Politeness,” Geena details her experience with Bill, and detailed an uncomfortable first meeting with him in a hotel suite, as well as a time on set where he repeatedly screamed at her in front of the crew.

Via NME, the excerpt reads: “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.” Speaking to The Times, Geena said that it “was bad”, adding “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,” she mused. When the reporter told Geena she was blaming herself for Bill‘s behavior, she responded, “Ha.

Point taken. There’s no point in regretting things, and yet, here I was regretting. And yes, exactly, it wasn’t my fault.” Just recently, Geena opened up about how differently she was treated by directors after her Oscar win.