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 Bill Murray
Interview By: Rebecca Ford Bill Murray is really funny. Whether on-screen or answering interview questions, he’s pretty quick with the laugh-lines. The Oscar-nominated actor is known for is funny ways, and such films as Groundhog Day, Lost in Translation, and—of course—Ghostbusters. So there’s lots of excitement about his newest roll, the gluttonous, corrupt mayor in City of Ember, a story of two teens in search for a way to save their city from falling into complete darkness. Bill as a bad guy will be oh so good. Bill says that when the script came across his desk, a familiar name popped off the page. “I opened the scripts and it said written by Carolina Thompson and she is a writer that I meant a long time ago when I first went to California and my agent sent me around to meet other writers,” says Bill. “We went out to a bar that was a diner during the day on Lincoln Avenue and at night it became a Mexican horn bar. It was a full orchestra with like 6 horns and the temp was about 130 degrees and all people did was drink rum straight and dance, and I thought, “I could work with this writer.’” But, that was not the time. He never saw her again, until he called her about City of Ember. “So I got her number and I called her and she was on a horse,” says Bill. “She was on horseback somewhere in the valley and she said you’re going to like this director.” Bill then checked out the work of director Gil Kenan. “I saw the Monsterhouse, and I figured this guy is good enough to work with. So that was that.” Bill did some research for the film, which is based on a book. “I found that the book was a book that kids in America read in school now. They read it in middle school,” says Bill. “And when I told my sons I might be in City of Ember, they said, ‘Oh! You're gonna be the mayor?’ And I hadn't even read the script yet.” "So when I read it, I read it from their point of view. I tried to think of, like, what they made of, what this mayor was. And I think a mayor can be a father figure who can disappoint you. I'm a father figure and I've probably disappointed on occasion. So, I just thought of when you're most disappointed is when you talk the talk and you don't live up to it. And that's pretty much what he did. So I felt like as long as I was really, really successful in talking the talk, that the disappointment would be there, just like a gasp.” One of the mayor’s signature characteristics is his belly. “Well, he's the only one that's eating three squares in the whole town, so he'd be the only one that would be putting on any kind ... |
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