What might have been.
Invoice Murray as soon as had the prospect to star in a film with Clint Eastwood – and he nonetheless regrets turning the legendary actor right down to at the present time.
Murray, 74, opened up concerning the missed alternative on Tuesday, March 25, throughout an interview on “The Howard Stern Show.”
“Have you ever watched a film and said I want to act with this guy so bad?” Stern, 71, requested the “Caddyshack” star throughout their sit-down.
“A long time ago I was watching the Clint Eastwood movies of the day, like ‘Thunderbolt and Lightfoot’ or whatever the movies he was making then,” Murray responded, “and I thought: ‘His sidekick gets killed, and he avenges, but the sidekick gets like a great part, a great death scene.’”
“I was like, I got to call this guy,” he continued. “So I called him out of the blue, and he said, ‘Would you ever want to do another service comedy?’ Because I just made ‘Stripes’ and he had this great idea for an enormous Navy thing.”
“And when he mentioned, ‘Would you ever want to do another service comedy,’ like jeez, ‘Would I become like Abbott and Costello?’” Murray quipped. “I had to do like military movies? And I said, ‘Well, God, I guess maybe I shouldn’t.’”
The film in query is most certainly the 1986 darkish comedy “Heartbreak Ridge.” It got here out a number of years after Murray’s 1981 hit “Stripes” and stars Eastwood as Gunnery Sergeant Tom Freeway – a profession United States Marine assigned to coach a gaggle of undisciplined recruits.
In accordance with Murray, he nonetheless regrets turning Eastwood down all these years later.
“But it’s one of the few regrets I have is that I didn’t do it,” the “Ghostbusters” star admitted to Stern. “Because it was a big-scale thing, and I would have gotten a great – I don’t know if I’d have gotten a great death scene, it was more of a comedy that one – but it was great. He had access to World War II boats and he could have like made a flotilla and stuff, and there was some cool stuff in it.”
The “Groundhog Day” actor regrets the choice a lot that he nonetheless brings it up when he sees Eastwood, 94, round Hollywood.
“And when I see him, I’m like: ‘I’m sorry, I wish I’d done that Clint, I’m really sorry,’” Murray concluded. “He’s certainly well over it. He’s a very resilient fella.”
Murray’s interview with Stern dropped after the “Lost in Translation” star broke his silence about Gene Hackman’s stunning loss of life. The legendary actor died at age 95 final month.
Murray, who starred in director Wes Anderson’s 2001 movie “The Royal Tenenbaums” alongside Hackman, mentioned he was “really good” but additionally “really difficult” to work with.
“He was a tough nut, Gene Hackman,” the comic mentioned. “But he was really good.”
“And he was really difficult, we can say it now, but he was a tough guy,” Murray continued. “Older, great actors do not give young directors much of a chance. They’re really rough on them, and Gene was really rough on Wes. I used to kind of step in there and just try to defend my friend.”
Hackman handed away inside his Santa Fe, Mexico, residence days after his spouse’s tragic passing.
