Bill Murray was almost a star in a Clint Eastwood movie.
The actor, who is currently starring in Riff Raff and The Friend, shared on The Howard Stern Show on Tuesday, March 25, that his biggest work regret is not making a comedy with Eastwood, 94.
Decades ago Murray was watching Eastwood movies, like Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, and noticed that all of the sidekicks have great parts; they get great death scenes and get avenged by Eastwood’s character, he said. He was then moved to call Eastwood out of the blue.
“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,” said Murray, 74.
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Murray shared that when Eastwood asked, he first worried about getting pigeonholed into a specific type of movie genre.
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