{"id":118761,"date":"2025-09-04T07:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T07:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/118761\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T07:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T07:40:07","slug":"aziz-ansari-still-hopes-to-finish-shut-down-movie-with-bill-murray-av-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/118761\/","title":{"rendered":"Aziz Ansari still hopes to finish shut down movie with Bill Murray- AV Club"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aziz Ansari is finally on the cusp of releasing his directorial debut Good Fortune after years of setbacks\u2014most notably, his original directorial debut Being Mortal being suspended indefinitely after misconduct allegations were raised against star Bill Murray. Murray reportedly climbed on top of a female production assistant and \u201ckissed\u201d her while they were both wearing masks for COVID protocols (\u201cI thought it was funny,\u201d Murray reiterated earlier this year). An HR investigation into the incident led to the studio shutting down production three-quarters of the way through filming. Despite this ignominious end, Ansari now tells <\/a>The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> he still hopes to finish the movie with Murray as part of it. \u201cHe was devastated,\u201d Ansari says. \u201cHe couldn\u2019t believe it happened. I think this movie meant a lot to him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Indeed, Murray said in April<\/a>, three years after the incident, that he doesn\u2019t \u201cgo too many days or weeks without thinking about what happened on Being Mortal.\u201d The movie may genuinely mean a lot to the actor, but in the New York Times interview, he seemed more concerned about being treated unfairly in the investigation; in his experience with the studio\u2019s HR, \u201cthere was no conversation, there was nothing, there was no peacemaking, nothing\u201d except for \u201clunatic arbitration\u201d which didn\u2019t meet his idea of justice. It was a much more embittered statement than his original comments<\/a> on the incident, wherein he said he was cooperating with the investigation and hoped to finish the movie, adding with humility that he was taking time for self reflection about his behavior.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Promises of self-reflection echo Ansari\u2019s own remarks regarding the 2018 #MeToo-adjacent allegations leveled against him, which he last addressed in his 2019 special <\/a>Right Now<\/a>. The comedian suggested he\u2019d taken time away from the spotlight to process, admitting he felt \u201cterrible\u201d about the situation. But when addressing the situation for the first time since the special in conversation with The Hollywood Reporter, Ansari downplays having taken a hiatus after the controversy. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t really a break, per se. I did that tour, and I wanted to address it in the special because people were curious about how I felt about the whole experience. So I felt like I had to talk about it in the special,\u201d the Parks & Recreation alum explained. He did not, however, feel like he had to apologize publicly to his accuser for the alleged sexually aggressive behavior. \u201cI mean, I apologized to the person personally, right? When it happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

Years later, here’s the first teaser of Aziz Ansari’s directorial debut Good Fortune<\/a>Aziz Ansari has another “first” directorial project shut down, this time by the strike<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aziz Ansari is finally on the cusp of releasing his directorial debut Good Fortune after years of setbacks\u2014most…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-118761","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}