Wonderfully Animated Rare 1988 Interview with Bill Murray

Blank on Blank has released a new episode of their fantastic animated series that takes interviews with pop culture icons and animates them. This features a rare interview from 1988 with Bill Murray in which he openly discusses his true motivations. In one part during the interview, he talks about why he likes being a jerk sometimes:

“I act like a jerk sometimes, and that’s sort of what the product is. You get these people who act like, ‘what the hell.’ When you act obnoxious towards people, like on a movie set, they say ‘we’re ready for you’ and I say ‘oh, go to hell, my feet hurt and my head aches.’ You want to have a margarita for lunch, and people like these little ADs and production assistants are like, ‘well, he’s drinking again.’ Drinking again? Go to hell. All I ever do is make some movies that made a lot of money now leave me alone, I want to have some fun. On Ghostbusters they had somebody following us. Following us. You walk down the street, you turn around and somebody would duck into a doorway. Just to control us and make sure we didn’t do anything too weird. It’s like, “‘what the hell.’ I didn’t get into this position by being like a stiff sitting on the set in a folding chair. I did it by walking around on the streets and stirring things up.”

The interview was conducted by journalist T.J. English, and you can listen to the full thing below.

This episode is brought to you by Dropbox http://Dropbox.com "I'm just an obnoxious guy who can make it appear charming, that's what they pay me to do" - Bill Murray in October 1988 T.J. English was tasked with writing a profile of Bill Murray for Irish America magazine.

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