Hollywood is the home of many iconic actor-director pairings that have pushed the envelope of groundbreaking cinema.
Bill Murray and Wes Anderson longtime buddies, fellow oddballs, and film geniuses are one such duo.
Their upcoming film, “Asteroid City,“projectedfor release in 2022, would mark their tenth collaboration.
To put it simply, it just seems like Anderson and Murraygeteach other.
What goes into making their dynamic, on-screen and off, so successful?
Read on as we bring you the best bits of the extraordinary friendship Bill Murray and Wes Anderson share.
That’s pretty much it,” as quoted byEsquire.
This was reportedly within the week of Murray having received the script.
Murray later even took his teammates out for steak.
Anderson calls him “the godfather of that film.”
That these ace filmmakers are in his orbit is assurance enough for Murray that he will have work.
“I mean if you did nine movies with Wes Anderson … people will call that a career.”
It’s like Mission Impossible, if you choose to accept.”
(His “Ghostbusters” director Ivan Reitman toldVanity Fairhis nickname perfectly summed him up.)
In fact, Murray appears to have been a rock for Anderson even behind the cameras.
This lesser-known nugget is part of a larger legend surrounding Murray and his notorious unreachability.
The hotel was also our restaurant, and where we’d do prep and makeup."
It sounds like a big party, honestly!
“If we can live together, we can work together.
I like him, he’s my friend.”
As for Anderson, he started off as a fan of the funnyman before their iconic collaboration began.
There’s nobody better to have on a movie set than Bill Murray."
“I like the way the showman has rounded out.
I knew him when he was just nobody practically, just a child out of Texas.
Just a kid with a saddle and a set of spurs.
And now he’s just rolling,“Searchlight Picturesquoted Murray saying.
Sometimes he’s off the radar for a little while and then surfaces.”
In quintessential plainspeak, Murray stated, “Gene is weak.
Who better than Murray, then, to dish some deets about Anderson’s highly anticipated next project?
“We just say the name and people will clap.
It has no meaning whatsoever …
I flew in from Spain.
I want to get my money’s worth.”
