Geena Davis Details Bill Murray's Alleged Screaming and "Difficult" Behavior On Set

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In her caller memoir, Geena Davis elaborate her acquisition moving with Bill Murray, including an incidental connected the acceptable of their 1990 movie Quick Change that near her "dying from shame."

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For Geena Davis, moving with Bill Murray was nary laughing matter. 

In her caller book Dying of Politeness: A Memoir, the Oscar-winning histrion elaborate her acquisition filming 1990's Quick Change with the comedian. Though the transgression drama had a "stellar cast," Davis wrote successful her memoir that she had several uneasy exchanges with Murray passim production—including however helium allegedly "insisted" connected utilizing a massage instrumentality connected her when they met up to sermon her role.

Recalling however the casting gathering took spot astatine a edifice suite, Davis wrote, "Pretty quickly, it was wide that this was a non-negotiable thing. I said nary aggregate times, but helium wouldn't relent. I would person had to outcry astatine him and origin a country if I was to get him to springiness up trying to unit maine to bash it; the different men successful the country did thing to marque it stop."

Davis wrote she yet gave successful and "Murray placed the happening connected my backmost for a full of astir 2 seconds," noting that she aboriginal learned the massager was "a test—to find retired if I was going to beryllium casual to enactment with; beryllium compliant."

Elsewhere successful the book, Davis said that Murray "came raging" into a trailer during their archetypal time of filming. Explaining however she was waiting for the wardrobe section to set her outfit astatine the time, Davis recalled that her co-star started "violently banging the doorway open" earlier screaming, "'WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING?'"

"And with that, helium got down maine and roared successful my ears, retired of the trailer, onto the street," the Thelma & Louis alum penned. "There were easy much than 300 there—and Murray was inactive screaming astatine me, for each to spot and hear."

The incident, Davis wrote, near her "shaking each over, dying from shame."

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Her determination to share the experience, she pointed out, was "not to uncover that Bill Murray has a precise acheronian side," but to amusement however "like truthful galore women successful a concern similar that, I didn't cognize however to debar being treated that way."

Davis hasn't spoken to Murray since wrapping the publicity circuit for their film. "I fig it's benignant of alternatively universally known that helium could beryllium hard to enactment with," she told People. "And truthful I don't consciousness similar I'm busting him successful a mode that volition needfully daze him. I deliberation helium knows precise good the mode helium tin behave."

E! News reached retired to Murray's rep for remark but did not perceive back.

Dying of Politeness: A Memoir is retired now.

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