Geena Davis Accuses Bill Murray Of Screaming At Her During Filming Of ‘Quick Change’: It ‘Was Bad’

Geena Davis, 66, is speaking retired astir her antagonistic acquisition successful making Quick Change with Bill Murray. The actress claimed the 72-year-old histrion insisted connected utilizing a massage instrumentality connected her, adjacent though she refused, astatine their archetypal gathering successful a edifice suite, and aboriginal screamed astatine her connected the acceptable of the 1990 film, successful her upcoming memoir, Dying of Politeness, according to NME. She wrote that the instrumentality was called The Thumper and helium kept wanting her to usage it adjacent though she emphatically refused, the outlet further reported.

Geena reportedly went connected to constitute that erstwhile Bill aboriginal tracked her down successful her trailer, helium started screaming astatine her for being precocious arsenic she waited for her wardrobe. He seemingly continued screaming astatine her arsenic she hurried onto the acceptable and continued doing truthful adjacent erstwhile she was successful beforehand of hundreds of cast, crew, and passers-by. HollywoodLife has reached retired to Bill’s rep for remark but person yet to person a response.

Geena and Bill successful a country from ‘Quick Change.’ (Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection)

Geena besides talked astir the uncomfortable concern she was enactment successful with Bill, successful a caller interrogation with The New York Times. It “was bad,” she said earlier adding “the mode helium behaved astatine the archetypal meeting…I should person walked retired of that oregon profoundly defended myself, successful which lawsuit I wouldn’t person got the part. I could person avoided that attraction if I’d known however to respond oregon what to bash during the audition. But, you know, I was truthful non-confrontational that I conscionable didn’t.”

The newsman Geena was speaking to successful the interrogation processed to suggest she was blaming herself for Bill’s actions. “Ha. Point taken,” she replied. “There’s nary constituent successful regretting things, and yet, present I was regretting. And yes, exactly, it wasn’t my fault.”

Another changeable of Geena and Bill successful the 1990 film. (Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection)

Geena’s latest accusations astir Bill travel aft she made headlines earlier this twelvemonth erstwhile she said she was treated otherwise by directors aft she won her archetypal Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role successful The Accidental Tourist successful 1989. “I had 2 directors, aft I won the Oscar, who I had a rocky commencement with, due to the fact that they assumed that I was going to deliberation I was ‘all that,’ and they wanted to marque definite that I didn’t consciousness similar I was ‘all that,’” she said successful an interrogation connected the Allison Interviews podcast.

“Without having met maine oregon having spent immoderate clip with maine oregon anything, they conscionable assumed I was going to beryllium like, ‘Well, present nary 1 is going to archer maine what to do!’ I deliberation possibly due to the fact that I was a woman, the directors felt that way,” she continued. “And possibly it was adjacent unconscious bias that they would possibly bash it to a pistillate and not a man. But they didn’t privation a pistillate to perchance origin them immoderate problems.”

Geena’s caller book, Dying of Politeness: A Memoir comes retired connected Oct. 11.