From reading poetry to construction workers in New York City to washing saucer at house party in Scotland , Bill Murray seems toappearonly in the foreign configurations . So it ’s not exactly a surprisal that booking him for a movie is a slight less conventional than calling his agent — alternatively , you have to call a 1 - 800 figure .
In a recent interview withIndieWire , Murray sustain what directors have been trying to tell us for years : If you need him to consider your movie , you have to pitch it to him by call a 1 - 800 number and go forth a message . The number , of course , is n’t listed , but rather elapse around Hollywood ’s inner forget me drug by word of mouth .
Murray disconnect his house phone years ago after feeling harass by agents who would call him so often his phone much never stopped call . “ seem , you ca n’t do this . This is my sign , ” he tell IndieWire he ’d reply to the agents , “ If I do n’t reply the phone , do n’t do that because you ’re making me not like you . ” But why were agents calling his planetary house sound in the first topographic point , instead of belong through his broker or publicist ? Because Murray does n’t have an agent or a publiciser .
Murray mainly prefers to make for with mass he already knows and is comfortable with . Sofia Coppola , who place Murray in 2003’sLost in Translationand his 2017 Netflix specialA Very Murray Christmas , collar him again for her 2020 filmOn the Rocks . And Murray has do in almost everyWes Andersonfilm to date ( including 2020’sThe French Dispatch ) .
Murray , who most recently star in Jim Jarmusch ’s 2019 zombie comedyThe Dead Do n’t kick the bucket , distinguish IndieWire , “ The the great unwashed that have it off me , they get to me . The people that do n’t know me just have a little more difficulty . ” According toVanity Fair , Murray does ( or at least did ) have a cell phone , but only uses it for texting . “ I do n’t like talking on the telephone set , ” Murray say .
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