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.