Groundhog Day was one of many greatest motion pictures of the Nineteen Nineties. We noticed Invoice Murray’s Phil Connors making an attempt to woo Andie MacDowell’s Rita Hanson as he repeated the identical day time and again. Whereas the 2 co-stars famously didn’t get together with one another on set, MacDowell’s daughter, Margaret Qualley, tried to set the duo up many years later.
Qualley’s adopted in her mom’s appearing footsteps and acquired reward and nominations for her works in Fosse/Verdon, Maid, and not too long ago obtained a Cannes standing ovation for her new 2025 film launch, Honey Don’t! However one perk of having a well-known mother or father is while you meet their well-known co-stars. Qualley spoke on The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon about assembly Invoice Murray backstage and the way his Piggy Wiggly shirt impressed her to set him up along with her mom:
I discover out he’s residing in Charleston. My mother’s residing in Charleston.
Ooh, take a look at that! Two former co-stars reside in the identical space. What a coincidence. With Invoice Murray and Andie MacDowell being residents in the identical city, this could be a very good likelihood to catch up, proper? Possibly arrange somewhat reunion alternative for the solid of probably the greatest rom-coms of all time.
Whereas it’s been extensively reported that the Scrooged actor and his Groundhog Day director, Harold Ramis, didn’t get alongside on-set, he apparently wasn’t the one one. Margaret Qualley obtained actual about why there could be somewhat snag in setting Murray and MacDowell up that she discovered from the actor himself:
He was like, ‘You recognize, your mother and I, we didn’t get alongside so good whereas we had been making that film.’ And he was like, ‘You recognize, she took a very long time to get her hair performed, and he or she didn’t know her strains this one time.’ And I used to be like, ‘Yeah, properly, I heard a unique story, sir.’
So, it seems that The Substance actress heard from her mom about her aspect of the story relating to the Invoice Murray-Andie MacDowell riff many years in the past. It’s frequent for co-stars to not get alongside throughout filming, like Charlie Hunnam and Robert Pattinson being at “an actual distance” in The Misplaced Metropolis of Z, or Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy having beef on Mad Max: Fury Street. Capturing a film isn’t straightforward with stress being introduced on to the solid and crew.
Though Margaret Qualley discovered her mom and the Stripes actor didn’t get alongside, it didn’t cease her from taking part in matchmaker. Right here’s the gifted actress’ reasoning why the 2 stars would nonetheless hit it off at the moment:
I’m placing two and two collectively. He’s residing in Charleston. She’s residing in Charleston. They’ve obtained this sort of rage in direction of one another, however possibly he’s making an attempt to make amends. And I’m like, she’s single, he’s single. They’re each loopy. Let’s get it collectively! […] So now, I stated to return circle again and get my quantity if he needs me to attach with my mother. And, you already know, if he’s obtained any sense in any respect, he’d be the luckiest man on this planet.
Think about what sort of love story that may be! It wouldn’t be the primary time that stars have gotten collectively years later after working collectively. Ashton Kutcher began relationship his That 70’s Present co-star Mila Kunis six years after their sitcom ended. To not point out, Freddie Prinze Jr. and Sarah Michelle Gellar fell in love three years after engaged on I Know What You Did Final Summer season. So why not add the Groundhog Day co-stars?
I don’t know if Invoice Murray watched Margaret Qualley’s Tonight Present look, but when he did, know that the Golden Globe nominee is giving her seal of approval to this point her mother. Should you’d wish to revisit the chemistry the comedy duo had in Groundhog Day, the time-loop comedy film is on the market along with your Netflix subscription.