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Topics: Bill Murray, Celebrity, Film and TV
Gerrard Kaonga
Topics: Bill Murray, Celebrity, Film and TV
Lucy Liu has reflected on her clashes with Bill Murray during the filming of Charlie's Angels and has defended her actions.
Just like any job out there, occasionally you get paired up with people you don’t get on with or simply don’t like.
Actors are no different and Lucy Liu has been candid in the past about her feud with fellow actor, Bill Murray.
In a recent interview, Liu defended her actions to stand up to the veteran actor and explained she had a really hard time working with him.
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The pair worked together for the first time on the 2000s film Charlie Angels. In the film, Liu played one of three agents alongside Cameron Diaz and Drew Barrymore, briefed by Bosley, played by Bill Murray.
During a 2021 interview with the Asian Enough podcast, Liu said that Murray insulted her on set one day.
“I won’t get into the specifics, but it kept going on and on,”
“I was, like, ‘Wow, he seems like he’s looking straight at me.’ I couldn’t believe that [the comments] could be towards me, because what do I have to do with anything majorly important at that time? I literally do the look around my shoulder thing, like, who is he talking to behind me? I say, ‘I’m so sorry. Are you talking to me?’ And clearly he was, because then it started to become a one-on-one communication.”
Speaking with Guardian yesterday (13 January), the actress, who has gone on to have a huge career herself since working with Murray, has reflected on the spat between the two, with Liu saying Murray used language that was ‘was inexcusable and unacceptable.’
The young star wasn’t going to let it stand and decided to challenge him on it. When asked why she confronted him Liu said: “I really didn’t think about it. I would have done that in any situation. I think when I sense something is not right, I am going to protect myself. It’s an innate thing to do if you feel there’s injustice, and I always feel that way."
She added that she wasn’t someone who would simply ‘play the game’ to get further in the industry.
She continued: “If I was, it would have been a much easier road. But because I’ve never been that person, we had to find a way. I think there has never been an easy road, for me and for us – and I say ‘us’, because I really think it’s a group effort.”
She even clarified the ‘us’ was in referencing to the other Asian American actors who came before her.
She said: “I would never take credit. My career has not been paved by myself.”
Murray isn’t a stranger to controversy on set and other actors have previously had less than flattering things to say about working with him.
He has also admitted to disagreements with other actors on set, highlighting back in 2023 that a film he was working on had production stopped over a ‘difference of opinion’.
He clarified: "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, they wanted to check it all out, investigate it, and so they stopped the production."
UNILAD has contacted a representative of Bill Murray for comment.