Invoice Murray Recollects Working With Bruce Willis on 13-Yr-Previous Movie

Invoice Murray has opened up about what it was wish to work with Bruce Willis on the 2012 film Moonrise Kingdom. The fan-favorite actor additionally shared a heartwarming story from his Saturday Evening Reside days about Willis, who was an NBC web page on the time.

Murray just lately appeared along with his The Pal co-star Naomi Watts on Watch What Occurs Reside! with Andy Cohen, which is the place he shared the 2 fond reminiscences of Willis. “Moonrise Kingdom was a very lovely, pretty movie. I acquired work with and have an exquisite time with Bruce Willis,” recalled Murray (through Selection). “He simply had a birthday. Bruce Willis is an effective man. He is an effective fucking man. He was a great good friend.“

Murray then shared how his working relationship with Willis truly began a long time earlier on Saturday Evening Reside, the place Murray was a solid member between 1977 and 1980. “He was additionally a web page at NBC after I was on Saturday Evening Reside,” the actor defined. “His job was to come back and refill, and this sounds insane, however his job was to come back and go to the dressing rooms and refill the M&Ms and pretzels and snacks within the actors’ dressing rooms. I bear in mind after I met him after he was already a profitable man he mentioned to me, ‘You and Gilda have been good to me.’ I at all times thought I’m good with this man.”

Bruce Willis Achieved Fame With Moonlighting

Though Willis started appearing in 1980, he didn’t obtain his breakout function till 1985, when he was solid as wise-cracking detective David Addison Jr. within the ABC sequence Moonlighting, which ran for 5 seasons and 67 episodes. A 12 months earlier than Moonlighting ended, Willis made the leap to the large display with the lead function within the motion flick Die Exhausting. The film turned Willis into an excellent greater star, resulting in roles in Pulp Fiction, 12 Monkeys, The Sixth Sense, and Unbreakable, amongst others. He additionally returned to his Die Exhausting function of John McClane for 4 sequels, which have been launched between 1990 and 2013.

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Willis retired from appearing in 2022 as a consequence of aphasia and frontotemporal dementia. With the previous actor celebrating his seventieth birthday final month, Murray is not the one actor to carry up their earlier work historical past with Willis. Samuel L. Jackson — who starred reverse Willis in Pulp Fiction (1994), Die Exhausting with a Vengeance (1995), Unbreakable (1999), and Glass (2019) — just lately shared the profession recommendation he obtained a long time in the past from the Die Exhausting actor.

“He advised me, ‘Hopefully you’ll be capable of discover a character that, whenever you make dangerous films, and so they do not make any cash, you may at all times return to this character everyone loves,” Jackson mentioned in March 2025. “He mentioned, ‘[Arnold Schwarzenegger]’s acquired Terminator, [Sylvester Stallone’s] acquired Rocky [and] Rambo. I’ve acquired John McClane.” Jackson finally joined the membership in 2008 when he signed a nine-picture deal to seem as Nick Fury within the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Supply: Watch What Occurs Reside! with Andy Cohen, through Selection