Bill Murray Gives Wes Anderson An ‘Automatic Yes’ When He Calls His 1-800 Number | Sunday TODAY

During the first two years of Today Sunday, we've brought you two interviews with movie stars, music icons, superstar athletes, CEOs of companies that are changing the world, and a President of the United States. This morning we added another legend to the list. SNL alum Bill Murray is a man of mystery in show business to anyone other than his immediate family, the only way to contact Murray is to call a phone

number

and leave him a message, if interested , I'll call you back, so

when

we found out that Bill was partnering. Back with director Wes Anderson for the new movie Isle of Dogs, we left a message we didn't hear until a couple of weeks ago,

when

Murray arrived in the green room here for a live Today Show interview and announced he'd like to do that . willie geist show that was our return call the next morning

bill

murray

and i met here in new york to sit down

sunday

when

bill

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requests an interview you just asked when and where he's famous it's hard to locate the actor 67 years old.

Unlike almost every other celebrity, Murray has no manager or personal publicity team; In fact, if a director wants to hire him for a movie, he has to call a 1-800

number

and leave a pitch in the pitch, what does it take? to call you back, someone to leave you a message now, what are you waiting for? Well, you know you want to have manners involved, you can tell right away when you know it's like food, you know you can look at it and you're all fooled so well. It got me It looked like it was a wedding invitation It was a chance to get a discount on the boss behind closed doors I was the head mascot of an undefeated high school baseball team Murray didn't need any convincing to sign up for his latest movie, the animated film I Love Dogs, is his eighth collaboration with Oscar-nominated director Wes, but this time he sends precisely a message that says: will you be available the first week of February?

If that is all. It's like Mission Impossible, if you choose to accept, is there any universe in which you say? I know what Wes is. I can't do this or it's an

automatic

yes for him, it's an

automatic

yes. He's made movies in his life, you know, and making movies is a pleasure. I think he's great in the movie that Murray plays. lost dog helping a boy find his lost dog i love dogs isn't murray's first role in the animal kingdom, he was a badger in another fantastic wes

anderson

film, mr. Fox, he was Baloo the bear in the Jungle Book, and even played a grumpy cat in a movie he starred in by mistake.

He made the Garfield movies, which were right, like just creating one crazier than the next. Is the story about how you signed up true? that movie thinking it was a different director I thought yes, it's true, it's absolutely true and I didn't really read the script. I thought, you know, I'd love to do a trailer when these animated movies are fun. I'm watching Joel Coen, one of my favorites, I mean the Coen brothers, these guys make great movies, well, it wasn't that Joel Coen, it was a different Joel Coen, there's an H and the one you said, yeah, do you Do you regret anything, Garfield? perhaps one of the few professional regrets in the life of William James Murray was born and raised in the suburbs of Chicago one of nine siblings Murray has three brothers who are also actors when Murray was 22 he joined one of those brothers in the second Chicago's famed improv comedy troupe then, in 1977, joined the likes of Belushi Aykroyd and Radner in a legendary cast of Saturday Night Live during the show's Emmy Award-winning second season.

Can you remember your run on SNL from a couple of years ago? mm-hmm How huge was that for you, it was a huge thing, you know, because you know that suddenly you had some viability in ISM as a film actor and you were able to meet all kinds of great actors and actresses and all the great musical artists of the moment . Do you know we had the Rolling Stones on the show? Next thing you know it's like seven hours later and you know you're passing around a bottle of rebel scream or you know inside a bathroom, they played beasts of burden and then they shut up, right? and then they did it again and they did it five more times they just played like living beasts of burden like that so far away five times in a row and you just like that Who am I?

How the hell did I get in here? This is ridiculous. It's all the SNL stories about the parties and the after parties and that was all as crazy as they say. Well, the after parties had a certain intensity, yes, and they kind of released it after that because the pressure was strong. You know, they talked about all the drugs, all right, there were a lot of drugs in the world back then and there's a lot of drugs in the world now, but we had a job to do, there was no one who was too messed up for work, you know, except our gas hose, you know, they would get nervous and you know, they would get medicated and go great, no, we're going to deal with this guy for the next 90 minutes early this year.

Murray returned to the SNL 8h studio for a special appearance. like Trump's former White House advisor Steve Bennett, it's time for America to slide off the rails and that's a girl who worked for Steve Ban the next day, I work for him, I thought she was going to fall apart, You know, I don't know what that meant. He didn't know if she wanted him to rescue her or call the police or what, as his 4-season run on Saturday Night Live was coming to an end, Murray turned to the big screen and played memorable roles in some of the film's classics. most quotable comedy of all.

The time we got there we saw that we kicked his butt meatballs Caddyshack stripes coming into Ghostbusters I mean, you were hitting home run after home run after home run, what did that do to your life, especially once Ghostbusters became this international phenomenon ? Well it was fun, I mean being a Ghostbuster it was a great job, people really believed we were some kind of special unit, we walked to the stores on Fifth Avenue with all the guns and everything, and people liked everything here, you know, we're just checking things out and you know. Picking things up and saying I'm going to take a look at this, we're not going to give it back to you with other cult favorite comedies like What's Up with Bob and Groundhog Day on your resume?

Murray began searching for something different and gained critical acclaim. for his role in Wes Anderson's 1998 film Rushmore and five years later he earned an Oscar nomination for Best Actor when he starred in Sofia Coppola lost in translation the more you know who you are and what you want, the less you know the things I say, yeah. I think Hollywood looked at you differently after you got nominated for an Oscar, they saw you as a fun guy and now you went wait a minute, probably yes, no, but that's boring, you know? If you can bake a cake, you think you could make a cake. and probably if you can do comedy you can do drama, it's not always the other way around because comedy is difficult, you know, I can make you cry, I can make you cry in a second, yes, I put a note, but to make you laugh, that's difficult.

They know it's hard to do and part two of our interview with Murray's take on the Bill Murray legend is right ahead. Hello

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