The nice Invoice Murray has been doing the press rounds in February and March, as he stars in two latest movies, the darkish crime comedy Riff Raff (with Jennifer Coolidge) and the dramedy The Good friend with an exquisite Naomi Watts. Considered one of his most up-to-date interviews was with Andy Cohen on his present Watch What Occurs Dwell, the place he took time to debate his profession. None apart from Bruce Willis got here up within the dialog; the actor retired in 2023 after sharing his analysis of frontotemporal dementia.
“I started working with, and have an exquisite time with, Bruce Willis. We must always bear in mind at this time. He simply had a birthday. Bruce Willis is an effective man, a superb f*cking man,” Murray mentioned earlier than sharing a candy reminiscence:
“He was a superb pal and actually all the time understood — Bruce Willis was a web page at NBC after I was on Saturday Evening Dwell. He was a web page. And his job was to return and to refill — this feels like insane sh*t, however his job was to return and go to the dressing rooms and refill the M&M’s and pretzels type of factor within the actors’ rooms. And I bear in mind after I met him after he was a profitable man, he mentioned, ‘You and Gilda [Radner] have been good to me.’ And I all the time thought, ‘OK, I’m good with this man.'”
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Invoice Murray Ranks His Films with Wes Anderson
The feedback about Bruce Willis happened when Murray was requested to rank a handful of Wes Anderson movies from favourite to least favourite. He talked about The Grand Budapest Lodge and praised “the technical elements” of the movie. Subsequent, he briefly and cryptically talked about The Life Aquatic, which supplied Murray together with his greatest function in an Anderson movie to this point. Murray mentioned of the masterpiece, “For me, The Life Aquatic was essentially the most difficult, laborious job that I ever had. It nearly price me my life, and my private life.” That is all Murray mentioned earlier than shifting on to Moonrise Kingdom.
“Moonrise Kingdom was a extremely lovely, pretty movie,” Murray mentioned of the 2012 movie with Bruce Willis. After that was The Royal Tenenbaums. “That is Gene Hackman. Might he relaxation in peace,” mentioned Murray. “That was singularly nice […] however Gene Hackman was extraordinary within the Royal Tenenbaums. All the movie was shot in New York Metropolis, and it was extremely difficult to shoot in like Higher Manhattan. It was simply enjoyable. Every part Wes has performed, it has been an fascinating life expertise, and he is made all of our lives as actors and folks rather more fascinating.”
The Good friend is now out in theaters from Bleecker Road and increasing on April 4, 2025.