Scarlett Johansson says Bill Murray was 'in a hard place' filming 'Lost in Translation: ''Life has humbled him'
Scarlett Johansson and Bill Murray costarred in Sofia Coppola's 2003 hit.
Johansson said Murray was in a peculiar "headspace" in a new interview.
"I think life has humbled him," Johansson added.Scarlett Johansson enjoyed sweet success following her starring turn opposite Bill Murray in Sofia Coppola's Oscar-winning 2003 hit, Lost in Translation, though she suggests in a new interview that Murray's time on the set was a more complicated affair.
The Avengers franchise actress and upcoming Jurassic World Rebirth star reflected on shooting the critically lauded movie in Tokyo at age 17 in a Vanity Fair cover story, saying she was a huge fan of Murray's work in projects like Groundhog Day and What About Bob before joining him on the film, but that he "was in a hard place" while making it.
"Everybody was on tenterhooks around him, including our director and the full crew, because he was dealing with his… stuff," she explained.
Johansson said she hadn't encountered a costar in such a "headspace" before, which the outlet described as a "diplomatic" assessment.
She then ran into Murray at the Saturday Night Live 50th anniversary special in February, where she observed him warmly interacting with people on set.
"He's such a different person now," she said. "I think life has humbled him."
She was then pressed on if she meant that Murray was "humbled" by allegations of misconduct levied against him, including when a crew member alleged inappropriate behavior on the set of Aziz Ansari's unfinished movie Being Mortal in 2022, which resulted in the suspension of its production.
Johansson replied, 'Certainly, yes — that was really bad. But I also know COVID was a hard thing for him. Life — all these things have led up to him being held accountable for that kind of behavior."
She continued, "But you know what? How wonderful that people can change."
Entertainment Weekly has reached out to representatives for Coppola and Murray for comment on Johansson's remarks.
In a 2022 interview with CNBC, Murray described the events on the Being Mortal set as a "difference of opinion," and he later revealed that he had kissed a crew member on the mouth while they were both wearing masks."I dunno what prompted me to do it. It's something that I had done to someone else before, and I thought it was funny, and every time it happened, it was funny," he explained to the New York Times. "I was wearing a mask, and I gave her a kiss, and she was wearing a mask. It wasn't like I touched her, but it was just, I gave her a kiss through a mask, through another mask, to another person. And she wasn't a stranger."
Since filming Lost in Translation, Murray has partnered with Coppola on two additional movies: Netflix's 2015 holiday project A Very Murray Christmas and Apple's On the Rocks, a comedy also featuring Rashida Jones.
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