As the actor’s star-studded variety point to A Very Murray Christmas arrives on Netflix,we toast the actor’s highlights
During production of the classic 1993 comedy, in which he starred as a misanthropic TV meteorologist, and doomed to live the same day over and over again,Murray was going through his first divorce – a period Dan Aykroyd dubbed “the Murraycane”. He was even crankier than normal, prone to disappearing for hours on end and not returning calls. To improve communication with the director, and Harold Ramis,Murray was ordered to hire a personal assistant. His solution? Employ one who was profoundly deaf and spoke only in sign language, which nobody else on set – including Murray – could speak. As Ramis said: “It was anti-communication... Let’s not talk.”
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Source: theguardian.com