Bill Murray candidly reflected on the 2022 misconduct allegations that had him settling with a female colleague for $100,000 after he kissed her through COVID-mandated face masks. He defended his behavior as “still funny” and indicated it was blown out of proportion when he was “barbecued” for the incident that led to Disney shelving their project, “Being Mortal” — a move he said was a “great disappointment.”
“It wasn’t like I touched her, it was just, I gave her a kiss through a mask, through another mask, to another person. And it wasn’t, she wasn’t a stranger,” he said, speaking with “The Daily” podcast for The New York Times in a Saturday episode.