Seth Green is the latest actor to accuse Bill Murray of inappropriate behavior.
Speaking on the YouTube show Good Mythical Morning, Green said he was nine when the Groundhog Day actor picked him up by his ankles backstage on Saturday Night Live and threw him in a trash can.
“When I was nine, I was doing a spot on Saturday Night Live when Mary Gross was one of the on-site news anchors, and she did a whole thing about what kids think about the Christmas holidays.” Green recalled, adding, that Murray was the host of the show that weekend.
“[Murray] saw me sitting on the armrest of that chair and made a fuss about me sitting in his seat,” said the Austin Powers actor. “And I thought, ‘This is absurd. I’m sitting on the armrest of this couch. There are several lengths of this sofa. Please eff off.’ And he said, ‘This is my chair’.”
Although his mother tried to get the young actor to move, Green refused, thinking, “Are you such a jerk? It’s rude to tell a nine-year-old to get out of his chair. What is this power play?”
“He picked me up by my ankles,” Green explained. “Hold me upside down … He dangled me over a trash can and was like, ‘The trash goes in the trash can.’ And I screamed, and I swung my arms, swinging my arms wildly, full contact with his balls. He threw me in the trash can, the trash can falls over. I was horrified. I ran away, hid under the table in my dressing room and just cried.”
The Independent has reached out to Murray’s rep for comment.
Green’s anecdote comes days after Thelma & Louise actress Geena Davis reflected on a “bad” encounter with Murray earlier in her career.
Davis told the Times that despite her repeated protests, Murray insisted on using a massager on her.
Earlier this year, production on Aziz Ansari’s directorial debut, Being Mortal, was suspended following an “inappropriate conduct” complaint against Murray. It was alleged that he kissed and sat on a crew member.
In an interview in April, Murray responded to the closure, saying: “I had a disagreement with a woman I work with. I did something that I thought was funny and it wasn’t received that way.”
He added: “The film studio wanted to do the right thing, so they wanted to check and investigate everything, and so they halted production.
“Right now we’re talking and we’re trying to make peace with each other,” he said.
The film was originally slated for a 2023 release.