Geena Davis details the nightmare of working with Bill Murray

Unfortunately, the other two men in the room weren’t much help either. “And I looked to them hoping they would say, ‘Come on, Bill, give it up’ or something.”

Murray’s domineering continued onto the first day of shooting. The first day was complicated, she said, shooting in Manhattan with hundreds of extras and a giant crew. When there was a miscommunication about whether she should be on set or waiting for wardrobe. “They said, ‘We’re ready for you to come to set.’ And I said, ‘Well, costumes asked me to wait here one second. Can I do that, or should I come with you?’” The assistant director answered by telling her that she should wait for the costumes.

However, Murray allegedly cleared up the confusion by humiliating Davis in front of the entire production. “Seconds later, Bill Murray—in a full clown costume, by the way—slams into the trailer with rage coming out of his eyeballs and starts screaming at me and swearing at me, ‘Get the fuck out there! What the fuck are you doing? Move! Move!’” Davis said. “And he got behind me and screamed in my ear, ‘Move! Move faster! Move it!’ And we’re getting to this intersection where there’s hundreds of people watching this, and he keeps it up and keeps it up until he says, ‘Stand there’ and points to a mark on the pavement and starts shooting.”

“Talking about it actually, it’s still — it’s very emotional for me because I felt so ashamed,” she said, telling Swisher that she was “literally shaking” over the incident.

Obviously, people hate hearing that a beloved screen icon might not be a great person. It’s very easy to conflate feelings of appreciation for one’s work and their actual character, especially when Murray’s been playing the same character for so long that many assume that’s just who he is. But in no other industry would it be acceptable to take abuse from a boss or employer in this way, and this situation is no different.