Wes Anderson lately defended appearing legend Invoice Murray after the actor had a handful of harassment accusations made towards him.

Wes Anderson considers Invoice Murray part of his household

Talking to IndieWire, Anderson — who has a longstanding relationship with the actor — lately mentioned that he has an “in depth” historical past with Invoice, and that whereas he doesn’t need to discuss another person’s expertise, he does think about Murray part of his household.

“My expertise with Invoice is so in depth. Invoice was such an awesome supporter of me from the very starting,” Anderson mentioned. “I don’t need to discuss anyone else’s expertise, however he’s actually a part of my household. You realize, he’s my daughter’s godfather. The truth is, he truly baptized her. He’s the one who splashed the water.”

The accusations towards Murray sparked up in 2022, when actress Geena Davis’ e book “Dying of Politeness” alleged that she had a poisonous work expertise with Murray whereas on the set of the 1990 movie Fast Change. Davis mentioned that Murray behaved inappropriately towards her throughout her audition and can be overly aggressive together with her whereas on set.

Murray additionally had a proper grievance made towards him whereas on the set of Aziz Ansari’s directorial debut Being Mortal, with allegations of the actor being inappropriate on set as soon as once more popping up and the movie pausing manufacturing in consequence. Murray confirmed the grievance in 2022 throughout an interview with CNBC, saying that he did one thing he thought was humorous however that wasn’t taken that approach.

“I did one thing I believed was humorous, and it wasn’t taken that approach,” Murray mentioned throughout an interview on the convention with cable channel CNBC. “The corporate, the film studio, wished to do the appropriate factor, in order that they wished to examine all of it out, examine it, and they also stopped the manufacturing. However as of now, we’re speaking and we’re making an attempt to make peace with one another. I feel that’s the place the actual subject is, between our peace. We’re each professionals. We like one another’s work. We like one another, I feel, and should you can’t actually get alongside and belief one another, there’s no level in going additional working collectively or making a film as properly.”

What else did Wes Anderson say about Invoice Murray?

Anderson additionally revealed that Murray was initially set to be in Asteroid Metropolis, his subsequent movie, however that Murray ended up contracting COVID-19 earlier than he was supposed to start out filming.

“Invoice was presupposed to be within the film [‘Asteroid City’],” mentioned Anderson. “It’s not an awesome factor to say, ‘Nicely this particular person was presupposed to play this half.’ As soon as somebody will get a component, you’re presupposed to say, ‘Nicely, that is their half.’ However on this case, as a result of there was some confusion about what occurred with Invoice. He was presupposed to play the motel supervisor who Steve Carell performs, and Invoice obtained COVID 4 days earlier than he was supposed to start out capturing. He was in Eire and within the case of our film, we had schedules of so many individuals which are all puzzled round. The individuals who Invoice was presupposed to play scenes with had been going to be gone by the point he cleared the COVID protocols and stuff. And in reality, he was fairly sick. So Invoice missed his half and Steve Carell got here in fairly all of a sudden. He was nice, I beloved having him. I met him, he arrived, and we had been instantly capturing.”

“Then when Invoice obtained higher, he got here to Spain,” Anderson continued. “On the finish of the film [where ‘Asteroid’ shot], we completed the film, and Invoice and I obtained in a automobile and drove to France. It was an effective way to complete but it surely was the primary time I hadn’t had him in a film in a very long time.”

Murray and Anderson’s relationship goes again a few years, with Murray having starred in 9 of Anderson’s movies, together with The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou. Murray’s final function in an Anderson movie got here in 2021’s The French Dispatch.