Hollywood insiders reveal Bill Murray’s dark side: ‘Hostile’ behavior and ‘flirting’ that ‘goes too far’
nypost.comkiss a much younger woman and then straddle her. Production was shut down on the half-finished Disney Searchlight medical drama “Being Mortal” after Murray was accused of doing just that to a “much younger” staffer.
After Murray paid the woman — who, it was reported by Puck, was allegedlyunable to move under the weight of the actor — more than $100,000 to keep details of the incident to herself and abstain from suing the film’s producers, it became clear that not everybody appreciates the aging actor’s out-of-touch hijinks. “I was zero percent surprised when news broke about the incident on ‘Being Mortal.’ The only surprising thing is that this hasn’t happened sooner,” a producer who has worked with Murray told The Post. “Bill Murray flirts with [people] on a set and it goes too far.
Kissing someone with a mask is too far. It’s his way of hitting on women, though I haven’t seen him touch anyone.” “Women are there to be flirted with and hit on,” the producer added of Murray’s MO. “And it wasn’t only the young PAs he hit on in the production; he’d hit on any woman.
I saw him flirting with women in makeup and costume.”A source previously told Page Six that Murray was “very hands-on touchy [on the production of ‘Being Mortal’] … but always in a comedic way.”The Post reached out to Murray’s lawyer, who did not reply.On the one hand, he’s become known for fun interactions with fans: giving a Chicago Cubs’ fan a 2016 World Series ticket outside Wrigley Field, spontaneously reading poetry to construction workers putting up a library, or tending bar at 21 Greenpoint, the Brooklyn restaurant owned by his son Homer.But Hollywood insiders have started revealing a different, much darker aspect to Murray’s personality: a tendency to.
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