Ghostbusters actor Bill Murray may be a big star, but Seth Green definitely not a fan. Green, a former child actor, was once brought in to appear in a comedy segment for an episode of Saturday Night Live while Murray served as host. As explained in a recent chat with Good Mythical morninghe calls Murray the “rudest” celebrity he’s ever met based on an encounter they had on the set of Saturday Night Live when Green was only nine years old.
According to Green, he was hanging out backstage in the green room with his mom and some… SNL cast members when he asked to change the channel on television. Eddie Murphy told him that was fine, but he had to do it himself by climbing on planks to get to the button. Green says Murphy thought that was funny and they watched TV together, and all was well until Murray entered the room, reportedly getting quite upset about Green sitting on the armrest of a sofa that the Groundhog Day star for himself. As Green explains:
“So Bill Murray hosted the show, and as everyone knows, he’s great with kids! He saw me sitting on the arm of this chair and made a big fuss about me sitting in his chair. And I thought, ‘That’s absurd. I’m sitting on the armrest of this sofa. There are different lengths of this sofa. Please leave.” And he said, ‘That’s my chair.'”
Green says another child actor who attended pointed out that this “the Bill Murray”, to which Green replied: “the Bill Murray?At the time, Green’s mother suggested the 9-year move, but his reluctance to switch seats led Murray to reportedly lash out.
“My mom says, ‘Because he’s the Bill Murray, maybe you should give him his seat.’ And I go, “Listen, I’ve never been so outraged to hear that the armrest of this chair… are you such a jerk? You’re so rude to tell a 9-year-old to get out of your… what’s this power game?’ He lifted me up by my ankles, held me upside down. You have to remember, when I was nine years old, I was probably under five feet. So he dangled me over a trash can, and he said, ‘The trash goes in the trash!’ And I screamed! Shout! And I waved my arms, waved wildly, full contact with his balls, full contact. He dropped me in the trash. The trash can calls over. I was shocked. I ran and hid under the table in my dressing room and just cried and cried.”
Green says the show got going again when Murphy and Tim Kazurinsky entered his dressing room. They told Green that “everyone knows Bill’s ad*ck” and asked the child actor if… he could be the pro by doing the segment. This made Green feel better, and although he hasn’t seen Murray since, he says he bumped into Murphy years later, and was shocked to learn that he SNL situation.
“He said, ‘You climbed on that thing and changed the channel.’ Couldn’t even believe it. And he said, ‘Congratulations.'”
Bill Murray was mean to the cast of SNL in the 1990s, says Rob Schneider
Seth Green isn’t the only person to criticize Bill Murray’s behavior recently. Murray recently settled a lawsuit against him with allegedly a very high payout. Actor and co-former SNL alum Rob Schneider also said on this week The Jim Norton & Sam Roberts Show that Murray wasn’t very nice to the cast members of the 1990s when he returned to host an episode in 1993. Schneider claims Murray could be nice to fans, but he hated Chris Farley “with a passion” along with Adam Sandler and others SNL cast members.
“He’s super nice to fans. He wasn’t very nice to us. … He wasn’t very – huh hated us on Saturday Night Live when he hosted. Absolute hated U.S. I mean, seething.”
You can watch the full interview with Seth Green at Good mythical morning below.