EXCLUSIVE: The biggest star at Sundance 2025 so far doesn’t even have a film at this year’s festival.
Bill Murray hit Park City this morning in an invite-only, low-key appearance on Main Street.
Of course, the Groundhog Day star being who he is, nothing about Murray’s sit-down with Elvis Mitchell at a Park City restaurant remained low-key for long.
“I got to be careful because both of the directors are here,” Murray said when asked what he liked about two films he has in the hopper. “I was a local hire,” the Saturday Night Live vet added of his role in two upcoming films.
“I have to confess I’ve been lazy,” Murray went on to say of his bent of late toward independent movies. “I eat what lands in my mouth,” he stated to big laughs from the audience.
Harking back to his early career out of the Chicago Second City improv world in the 1970s, the agentless Murray stated that he learned a lot from those “ahead of me in the troughs” to aim to not make “bad choices.”
Going for a quick laugh, Murray responded to a SNL-related question from Mitchell with a “that show’s never gonna work.”
“I’m all alone up here,” the Lost in Translation actor quipped with perfect timing to more laughs.
Bill Murray at his invite-only interview with Elvis Mitchell at a Park City restaurant (Dominic Patten/Deadline)