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Misery loves company, and since Bill Murray<\/a> has a habit of bringing misery to many places that he\u2019s been in his big-screen career, it was only fair that he was on the receiving end for a change.<\/p>\n Whenever the comedy veteran has starred in something that\u2019s been a struggle to make, he can usually place the blame on someone or something else. On Groundhog Day, it was his fracturing relationship with Harold Ramis, a feud that wasn\u2019t resolved until the latter was on his deathbed<\/a>.<\/p>\n On What About Bob?, it was his antagonistic relationship with co-star Richard Dreyfuss. On Scrooged, his issues with director Richard Donner conspired to make the festive favourite a miserable experience for both of them, and even during his Saturday Night Live days, Chevy Chase was his arch-nemesis.<\/p>\n Murray even made it a two-for-one special on Charlie\u2019s Angels<\/a>, with his unprofessional behaviour making him an enemy of Lucy Liu, while director McG\u2019s claim that the star had almost broken his nose with a headbutt led the \u2018Murricane\u2019 to respond that the filmmaker would be much better off dead instead.<\/p>\n If you were to look at the two Murray-led pictures that were released in 2004 and forced to guess which one he described as being worse than imprisonment, you\u2019d probably opt for Garfield, since he admitted that he only signed on for the animated flick because he thought one of the Coen brothers was involved<\/a>, which still doesn\u2019t explain why he agreed to return for the sequel, but money is likely the answer.<\/p>\n However, in the most unexpected turn of events, it was his Wes Anderson collaboration, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, that the droll icon loathed every second of. When he was informed that the dramedy would be shooting for three months, he was OK with it, but when it lasted for five, he was distraught.<\/p>\n \u201cWe get out there, and they said, \u2018It could take into January,’\u201d Murray recalled. \u201cAnd it did, and it was just brutal.\u201d Many of the scenes involved the ensemble cast being crammed into close quarters, and while that was only part of the leading man\u2019s abject misery, he didn\u2019t hold back in sharing his thoughts on the process.<\/p>\n Further reading: Cutting Room Floor<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cIt was a torturous experience,\u201d he added. \u201cI hated going to work. I was so miserable that it was a real challenge to work every day. It was what I imagined being in prison is like. Cold, really densely, brutally cold. I don\u2019t know if I\u2019m over it yet.\u201d Maybe he wasn\u2019t, and maybe that explains why he was such a dick to Anjelica Huston<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n Anderson is one of only three people who can virtually guarantee that Murray will be in their movies, along with Sofia Coppola and Jim Jarmusch, but he might have been willing to give the former a second thought after The Life Aquatic quite clearly almost broke him.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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