Sharon Liu finally spilled the tea on longstanding rumors over her coming to blows with Bill Murray on the set of the first Charlie’s Angels .
The now 52-year-old actress was one part of the iconic crime-fighting trio alongside Drew Barrymore and Cameron Diaz in the 2000 action comedy. The big screen adaptation of the classic TV show also starred the 70-year-old comedian as the group’s liaison to Charlie himself, Bosley.
And while things may have seemed perfectly friendly between everyone onscreen, gossips have circulated for years associated with an altercation between Murray plus Liu on the set.
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Speaking with the Los Angeles Times ‘ Asian Enough podcast on Tuesday, Liu finally opened up about the confrontation with the Saturday Night Live alum, revealing he had used “inexcusable and unacceptable” language towards her behind the scenes.
While she didn’t want to “get into the specifics, ” the Elementary star explained that the cast had a rehearsal for a scene that Murray was not a part regarding because he had to attend a family gathering. When he returned to set, however, Lucy claimed he started to randomly “hurl insults” — and the behavior “kept going on and on. ”
She recalled:
“I was, like, ‘ Wow, he seems like he’ s looking straight at me. ’ I couldn’ t believe that will [the comments] could be towards me because what do I have to do with anything majorly important at that time? I literally do the look around my shoulder thing, like, who is he talking to behind me? I say, ‘ I’ m so sorry. Are you talking to me? ’ And clearly, he was, because then it started to become a one-on-one communication. ”
The Emmy nominee then immediately stood up for herself at the time, explaining:
“Some involving the language was inexcusable in addition to unacceptable, and I was not going to just sit there and take it. So , yes, I stood up for myself, and I don’ t regret it. Because no matter how low on the totem pole you may be or wherever you came from, there’ h no need to condescend or to put other people down. And I would not stand down, and even nor should I have. ”
Good for you! As franchise fans know all too well, Murray ultimately decided not to reprise his role in the particular 2003 sequel, Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle and was replaced by Bernie Mac .
In an interview with the Times connected with London in 2009, this individual basically confirmed the long-rumored incident, though he certainly made it sound like he was in typically the right. He said at this time:
“Look, I will dismiss you completely if you are unprofessional together with working with me …When our relationship is professional, and you’re not getting that done, forget it. ”
It really seems like Bill has been the “ unprofessional” one in this situation based on Lucy’ s version of events…
Meanwhile, Liu claimed she has “nothing against” Murray these days, saying he was “perfectly nice” when they attended an SNL reunion. So that’ s nice at least.
However, often the Kill Bill alum also made clear on the podcast that she thinks you should always stand up for yourself, no matter who you are.
“ I’m not going to sit there and be attacked… I don’t want to become that person that is not really going to speak up for myself and stand by the only thing that I have, which is my dignity and self-respect. ”
And taking the stand left an impression on your crew, who have since told her how much they agreed along with her!
“ I remember years later, maybe even decades later, some crew members that I didn’t even know at the time came up to me on other sets and told me that they were there at the time and they were really grateful of which I did that. ”
Unfortunately, that was not necessarily how the media saw it at the time. Elsewhere within the chat, Liu recalled exactly how she was often blamed with regard to the fight because she is a woman:
“ It was incredible to me how it was turned around and they automatically thought that the woman was the difficult one. But I didn’ t understand how it got flipped when I had nothing to do with instigating it or creating that platform of confrontation or anxiety. So even though it’ s been decades, it’ t something that obviously I remember very intimately and have certainly not forgotten. ”
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