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\u2018Sentimental\u2019 isn\u2019t the first word that comes to mind when Bill Murray<\/a> comes up in conversation. He is neither sentimental in his movies nor, if many of his co-stars are any indication, is he sentimental off camera. His characters tend to be deadpan man-children who have a habit of destroying the lives of those around them. He\u2019s loveable despite his actions, but he rarely projects a\u00a0whole\u00a0lot of tenderness.\u00a0<\/p>\n In more recent years, he\u2019s leaned into the melancholy side of this character type. Movies like\u00a0Lost in Translation\u00a0and\u00a0Broken Flowers\u00a0see him playing deadpan man-children who resort to humour to distract from their gloom and regret. It\u2019s proven to be a winning formula. He earned an Oscar nomination for\u00a0Lost in Translation<\/a>\u00a0and has cited his work in\u00a0Broken Flowers\u00a0as his favourite of his performances.\u00a0<\/p>\n Throughout his decades in Hollywood, he\u2019s\u00a0had the opportunity to work\u00a0with many great actors who have brought audiences to tears in one film or another, including Cate Blanchett, Scarlett Johansson, Ralph Fiennes, and Adrien Brody.\u00a0He\u2019s even been in the same film as Meryl Streep (Fantastic Mr Fox), though since they were only doing voice acting, it\u2019s unlikely\u00a0they worked opposite each other.\u00a0<\/p>\n Of all the co-stars he\u2019s appeared with, however, Murray has one clear favourite: Tai.\u00a0If you\u2019ve never heard of Tai, it\u2019s probably because she was an elephant and therefore not a household name, even if she deserved to be. She starred with Murray in the 1996 film\u00a0Larger Than Life, in which he plays a motivational speaker whose father leaves behind an elephant as his only form of inheritance. It was not well-received.\u00a0In fact,\u00a0it was panned and failed to make back even one-third of its budget at the box office. Still, it was one of the most moving experiences of Murray\u2019s professional life.<\/p>\n