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Hollywood insiders give insight into Bill Murray’s 'inappropriate’ on-set conduct

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Some jokes don't work. Consider the scene where a masked Bill Murray thinks it would be hilarious to kiss and then straddle a considerably younger woman. The half-finished Disney Searchlight medical drama "Being Mortal" production was halted after Murray was charged with doing just that to a "far younger" employee. It became evident that not everyone approves of the elderly actor's out-of-touch antics after Murray allegedly paid the woman, who Puck claimed was unable to move under the weight of the actor, more than $100,000 to keep the incident's specifics to herself and refrain from suing the movie's producers.Bill Murray “I was zero percent surprised when news broke about the incident on ‘Being Mortal.’ The only surprising thing is that this hasn’t happened sooner,” a producer who has worked with Murray told The Post. “Bill Murray flirts with [people] on a set and it goes too far. Kissing someone with a mask is too far. It’s his way of hitting on women, though I haven’t seen him touch anyone.” “Women are there to be flirted with and hit on,” the producer added of Murray’s MO. “And it wasn’t only the young PAs he hit on in the production; he’d hit on any woman. I saw him flirting with women in makeup and costume.” A source previously told Page Six that Murray was “very hands-on touchy [on the production of ‘Being Mortal’] … but always in a comedic way.” The Post reached out to Murray’s lawyer, who did not reply. [caption id="attachment_52605" align="aligncenter" width="2000"]Bill Murray Sean O’Banion, a production assistant on “Charlie’s Angels,” recalled how Lucy Liu (second from left) didn’t put up with Murray’s insults — and hurled them right back at him, calling him a “f–king c–ksucker.[/caption] On the one hand, he's become well-known for his entertaining interactions with fans, such as when he gave a Chicago Cubs fan a 2016 World Series ticket outside Wrigley Field, when he impromptu read poetry to workers building a library, or when he tended bar at his son Homer's Brooklyn restaurant, 21 Greenpoint. But Hollywood insiders have begun exposing a new, far darker side to Murray's character: a propensity for being pushy and embarrassing to coworkers. On the set of the 2000 movie "Charlie's Angels," Sean O'Banion, a production assistant, saw the reaction to the now-famous incident in which actor Bill Murray went on co-star Lucy Liu over a script alteration that was purportedly done without his knowledge. Liu claimed that Murray began to "hurl slurs" at her. A fed up Liu, O’Banion told The Post, “called [Murray] a ‘f–king c–ksucker’ and walked off the set. We all stood there with our mouths open. Within an hour, though, they resumed filming. Bill did not come back for the sequel.” Lucy Liu’s spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment. That film’s director, McG, has also claimed that Murray head-butted him during production. Murray denied this to the London Times, describing the allegation as “Bulls–t … Complete crap.” But it is not the only claim that the actor got physical on set. Murray allegedly threw an ashtray at Richard Dreyfuss during the filming of 1991’s “What About Bob.” Additionally, during the making of the 1993 movie “Groundhog Day,” he stands accused of having pushed director Harold Ramis — also his co-star in “Ghostbusters” — against a wall in the midst of a heated conversation. “On the first day of shooting for ‘Ghost Busters,’ he hoisted Sigourney Weaver up onto his shoulders [for no apparent reason],” Gavin Edwards, author of “The Tao of Bill Murray,” told The Post. “She was a good sport, but it was indicative of Murray’s dark side. There’s often a bit of putting other people in their places.”

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