Bill Murray Says He's Not the Man He Used to Be

比尔·默瑞表示,他不再是过去的自己了。

The Interview

社会与文化

2025-04-05

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The actor talks about his new film “The Friend,” his jerky past and what he doesn’t get about himself.
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  • I'm David Marchese.

  • In Bill Murray's new movie, The Friend, which is based on a great novel by Sigrid Nunez,

  • he plays Walter, Walter's best friends with Iris, played by Naomi Watts.

  • Through a surprising course of events, Iris winds up having to take in Walter's great Dane.

  • And by the way, Iris lives alone in a modest apartment in Manhattan,

  • so not exactly ideal for a dog the size of a small horse, and not exactly nice of Walter.

  • Like so many of Murray's late career characters, Walter is funny and charismatic, but he's also kind of a jerk.

  • He's resentful and self-centered and he's caused some real damage.

  • Now I'm a huge Bill Murray fan and I sometimes imagine those more recent roles as kind of alternate world versions of the comedy characters that made him a superstar,

  • because Peter Venkman in Ghostbusters or Phil Connors in Groundhog Day to pick just two examples,

  • they could be selfish and even cruel, but in the end, they always get away with it.