Invoice Murray and Richard Dreyfuss infamously clashed whereas making What About Bob?, and it seems like they’ll by no means make up.
The tales of the strain and fights between Invoice Murray and Richard Dreyfuss on the set of What About Bob? are legendary – and with a popularity that acquired him the nickname “The Murricane”, that claims so much. And even three many years after What About Bob? was launched, Dreyfuss has such unhealthy reminiscences from the set that he nonetheless desires completely nothing to do with Murray.
In a brand new oral historical past on the damaging making of 1993’s What About Bob?, Dreyfuss was requested if he meant to formally patch issues up with Murray. And it went about in addition to you’d count on. “Why would I do that? We left on bad terms. Oh, yeah, one day I decided to make up with Bill, about 15 years after the movie came out. I went to a restaurant that his family ran and told his brothers that I was looking to make up with him, but he was not there.” For what it’s value, Dreyfuss does contemplate Murray the important thing motive why folks nonetheless watch the film right now.
But it surely wasn’t simply Invoice Murray that Richard Dreyfuss didn’t jive with – it was additionally the film’s director, Frank Oz. Because it goes, Dreyfuss and Ozwould solely talk with one another by means of an assistant director serving as intermediary, a state of affairs which derived from Ozbarring producer Laura Ziskin from the set. As Oztells it, he made the try to bury the hatchet with Dreyfuss nevertheless it was one other useless finish. “Years later, I wrote to him and said what a brilliant job he did. He didn’t get the attention, I think, that he should have gotten because he was not the lovable character. I wanted to let him know how highly I thought of his work. I did never did hear back. I’m not sure why. Maybe he was appreciative of it. Maybe he still had a problem with me. I don’t know. But he had a reason to have a problem with me. It was a tough shoot, and my job was to keep going forward.”
Invoice Murray has reportedly clashed with plenty of his co-stars over time and Richard Dreyfuss is thought to be a curmudgeon so it’s actually no surprise that they didn’t get alongside one bit when making What About Bob? Murray has made peace with others over time, however that is a type of beefs that simply doesn’t appear anybody has an curiosity in actually settling. Then once more, child steps…
