I don’t know if you’ve ever sat through the Garfield movie with Bill Murray as the voice of Garfield, but I definitely haven’t! I can’t even stand the cartoon that’s on that my two young children like to watch. The comics were funny 20 years ago, but I think the strip ran it’s course long ago and should be put to sleep.
So Bill Murray did an interesting interview with GQ magazine recently, and one of the funniest parts of the article is where he is asked about the Garfield movie and just why did he do it? He doesn’t need the money, and he doesn’t do every movie tossed his direction… so why Garfield? Well it all came down to him thinking it was written by the Coens, as well as the fact he wasn’t really paying much attention and just working off his assumption.
“Plus, I looked at the script, and it said, “So-and-so and Joel Coen.” And I thought: Christ, well I love those Coens! They’re funny.”
I wish I knew what it was like to be able to scoff at $50,000 to do a job like the voice for this movie… which he said would normally take TWO DAYS to complete!! I sure don’t make $50,000 in a year, let alone two days.
I like to think that I would be pretty cool and laid back if I had millions of dollars like Murray. If only there were a way to find out for sure!
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