Bill Murray has remembered the late Gene Hackman as being a great but “difficult” actor who was “really rough” on The Royal Tenenbaums director Wes Anderson.
During an appearance on The Drew Barrymore Show, Murray elaborated on his comments, saying that he sympathized “with Gene because to him, Wes Anderson was just a punk kid and Gene’s made some of the greatest American movies.”.
“And then he sort of gave an ordinary performance and the other actor got it right and I thought Gene was going to throw the actor off the ledge of the building.
They’re really rough on them, and Gene was really rough on Wes,” the Groundhog Day star said.
“And I’d go like, ‘Oh, God.’ I was watching it going, ‘No wonder this guy wants to throttle people,’” Murray laughed.
