Andie MacDowell reveals Invoice Murray’s on-set shenanigans

Life imitated artwork for Andie Macdowell on the set of the 1993 comedy basic Groundhog Day.

Simply as her Pittsburgh information producer Rita Hanson finally falls for the time-looping charms of cynical weatherman Phil Connors whereas he’s caught reliving the identical Groundhog Day in Punxsutawney, MacDowell, too, was charmed by her incomparable co-star, Bill Murray.

“I’ll let you know the humorous factor about Invoice, you don’t know what to anticipate with him. He’s a singular individual,” MacDowell informed Yahoo Leisure throughout a 2019 Role Recall interview (watch above, with Groundhog Day beginning at 3:30). “He’s extraordinarily artistic. Recent. Each time he does a scene, it’s recent, it’s new, he’s including nuances to it. Off digital camera, he’s simply as bizarre, possibly weirder. As a result of he’s simply being him.”

Whimsical Murray tales abound from here to the furthest corners of the internet, and MacDowell has just a few to share from their time working collectively.

“Folks would come from throughout to see him,” she recollects. “And on Friday nights he would say, ‘I’m sorry, of us. I don’t do autographs on Fridays.’ And didn’t matter the place they got here from. However the humorous factor is how he would say it, individuals accepted it. They weren’t mad at him. No person was offended or saying ugly issues to him.”

There was one other time Murray and MacDowell have been filming a scene in automobile collectively when Murray stepped on the gasoline and jettisoned them from the set.

“He simply took off,” she says. “And I used to be like, ‘What are you doing? The place are we going, Invoice? And he goes, ‘Oh, I simply thought we’d go for a journey.’ So we simply left [for] about 10, quarter-hour.”

Groundhog Day is at present streaming on AMC+.

This story was initially printed Feb. 2, 2022.