“The world is different than it was when I was a little boy”: Bill Murray speaks out on the accusation of ‘being mortal’

Bill Murraythe 71-year-old movie star and early saturday night live cast member, spoke with CNBC on Saturday about the recent shutdown of film production be deadly. The film was reportedly halted last month due to an alleged complaint about its “inappropriate behavior.”

“I did something that I thought was funny and it wasn’t taken that way,” he told the network. becky fast. He also referred to the incident with her co-worker, who has not yet been named, as a “difference of opinion.”

The movie studio decided to conduct an investigation, Murray said, which is what called off filming midway through production. “From now on we are talking and we are trying to make peace with each other,” said the actor. “We’re both professionals, we like each other’s work,” he added, later saying, “We like each other.” otherI think.”

But he noted that if the two “can’t really get along and trust each other, there’s no point in going further, working together or doing the movie.”

He referred to this episode as “pretty educational” and said that he “hasn’t been doing much other than thinking about it for the last two weeks.”

“The world is different than it was when I was a little boy,” he continued. “What I thought was fun when I was a little kid isn’t necessarily what’s fun now. Things change and times change. It’s important for me to find out. And the most important thing is that it is the best for the other person.”

He concluded with some optimism—“I think we’re going to make up”—and then, referring to himself, said, “He’s a sad dog who can’t learn more. That’s one sad puppy. I don’t want to be that sad dog, and I don’t intend to be.”

Murray later clarified that he was mostly in dialogue with his colleague, and not so much in the studio. “First things first,” he said about it. He added that, in his life, he has always learned much more from his mistakes than from his successes.

be deadlyif it continues, it will be Aziz AnsariThe first feature film as a director. He also wrote the screenplay, adapting it from the 2014 nonfiction bestseller. Being mortal: medicine and what matters in the end surgeon and public health researcher Atul Gawande. The film, set at Searchlight Pictures (which falls under the larger Disney umbrella) co-stars seth rogen Y Keke Palmer.

Murray spoke to CNBC at Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholder meeting in Omaha, Nebraska. Quick noted that it was Murray’s first time “in the meeting,” but that he knew Warren Buffet, president and CEO of the multinational holding conglomerate, for a long time. The duo were seen having ice cream together. in 2019and apparently they filmed a little skit that was shown at this year’s event.

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