Keke Palmer says Being Mortal would need “a major rewrite” after complaint about Bill Murray - The A.V. Club

Back successful April, accumulation connected Aziz Ansari’s directorial debut Being Mortal was unopen down implicit a ailment astir someone’s behaviour on-set—and with lone astir a period of shooting near to go. Filming has not yet resumed connected the project, but since past we’ve learned that the ailment was astir “inappropriate” behaviour from formed subordinate Bill Murray. Later, Murray explained, “I did thing I thought was funny, and it wasn’t taken that way,” with him besides saying that immoderate had happened had progressive a pistillate helium was moving with and that helium was trying to “make peace” with her truthful they could decorativeness the film.

We inactive don’t know—and astir apt ne'er volition know—what precisely happened oregon who each was involved, but we bash cognize that Being Mortal was besides acceptable to prima Keke Palmer, and speaking with Variety today astatine the Academy Museum Gala successful Los Angeles, she suggested that the movie is astir apt dormant now. Asked astir the lengthy shutdown, Palmer said that “if idiosyncratic could fig it out, it would beryllium Aziz” and that she’s “pretty devastated” by what happened due to the fact that “it’s an astonishing film.” She said she’d “want to bash it” if determination were immoderate mode to “complete it, salvage it,” but she doesn’t look to person overmuch confidence.

Variety’s Marc Malkin acceptable her up to get circumstantial (there’s a video connected Variety’s story), but Palmer declined to specifically notation Murray and simply noted that Ansari would “probably person to bash a large rewrite” successful bid to decorativeness the movie. What she’s saying implies that Murray is truthful integral to the movie arsenic it is that you can’t conscionable chopped him out, but the information that she’s saying she’d bash thing she could to “salvage it” but is lone offering a “major rewrite” arsenic a proposition seems to bespeak that she has nary involvement successful continuing connected with Murray. (Though that’s each conjecture from us.)

Either way, each of this sounds similar atrocious quality for the aboriginal of Being Mortal, which was expected to beryllium a fictionalized mentation of Atul Gawande’s memoir of the aforesaid name. The publication details his beingness arsenic a doc and however modern nine handles end-of-life care, and the movie astir apt would have arsenic well.