Bill Murrayreflected onthe allegationsandeventual $100,000settlementthat derailed and subsequently shuttered Disneys Searchlight Pictures adaptation ofBeing Mortalback in 2022.
I dont go too many days or weeks without thinking of what happened onBeing Mortal, he began.
Someone that I worked with, had lunch with on various days of the week and so forth.
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I was wearing a mask and I gave her a kiss and she was wearing a mask.
And she wasnt a stranger.
How is anyone supposed to know anything like that?
There was to be no conversation, there was nothing, no peacemaking, nothing.
And just went to this lunatic arbitration.
But I just thought it was a disappointment.
It was a great disappointment because I thought I knew someone and I did not.
And I certainly thought it was light and I thought it was funny.
Thats all it was.
(Being Mortalwas based on Atul Gawandes eponymous nonfiction book about end-of-life and hospice care.)
If Id have thrown it Dreyfuss, Id have hit him, he said.
(For his part, Dreyfuss has said in recent years that he isready to forgivethe actor.)
AddressingGeena Davisclaims of impropriety, Murray called them outrageous.
Well, Ive had interactions with hundreds of thousands of people over 40, 50 years.
Now, you might come up with half a dozen.
Murray has previously addressed the suspension ofBeing Mortal.
But as of now, were talking and were trying to make peace with each other.
I think thats where the real issue is, between our peace.
We like each others work.
