‘I didn’t let it happen and I don’t regret it’: 25 years ago, all was not well between Lucy Liu and Bill Murray on the set of Charlie’s Angels.

It so happens that the stars don’t meet each other on the sets, but when one of them openly attacks the other in front of everyone, people like Lucy Liu dare to step up to the plate. during a Podcast in 2021Then most recently at the microphone guardAbout the fight with Bill Murray, the actor famous for appearing in Kill Bill.

Funny drama

The scene takes place during the filming of Charlie and the Freaking Ladies (2000), directed by McGee. Lucy Liu plays one of the three “Ladies” in the film, alongside Cameron Diaz and Drew Barrymore, and Bill Murray as Bosley, the man who entrusts their missions to the investigators.

“We spent a weekend reworking a particular scene, and Bill Murray couldn’t be there because he had some kind of family reunion. Everyone was there but him, and we made the scene softer.”

It specifies, because it is important for the future: “I wish I had been more involved in the rewrites, but I wasn’t, because I was the last addition to the cast and probably the least privileged in terms of creative input.” Except Murray arrives with his own transcripts, which he tries to impose on everyone, even though no one has talked about them. When he discovers that other things are planned, he explodes. Liu recalls:

“I was like, ‘Hey, it looks like he’s looking right at me. I couldn’t believe that people were targeting me because I had absolutely nothing to do with anything important. At that time.” I said, “I’m very sorry, but are you talking to me?’ And it did, because from there he started aiming directly at me.”

It is then that thing “unforgivable and unacceptable” have been “shout out” Ghostbusters star to his 18 years younger co-star. Some media say that Murray, among other things, told the actor that he “I couldn’t play.”

“I have not given up and I have no regrets because no matter what level of the pyramid you are on or where you come from, there is no need to put others down or put you down. film producer Drew Barrymore went on defense Actor in 2021.

Head shot in the middle of filming

Director McGee will also comment on Murray and claim that the actor gave him a headdress in the middle of filming. Bill Murray dismissed the attack in his trademark tone and hit back About Liu that “If you work with me, I will absolutely refuse you if you are unprofessional.”

Charlie and the Odd Ladies would have a sequel in 2003 with Charlie’s Angels: Angels Unleashed, with the three actresses returning, but the role of Bosley would not be played by Bill Murray, but by Bernie Mac. coincidence?