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Aziz Ansari He has said that he still hopes to complete to be mortalwhich was the movie Suspended in 2022 after allegations of inappropriate conduct Were created against its star, bill murray,
The film would have been Ansari’s feature directorial debut. After production halted, he got to work good fortuneStarring Keanu Reeves, Seth Rogen and Keke Palmer And was released this week.
talking to Entertainment WeeklyAnsari said that he has still not given up hope of returning to the earlier project.
“At some point, it would be great to end it,” he said. parks and Recreation star. “I edited some things out. There’s a lot of stuff in there that we’re all really proud of.”
After adding that he would “have to wait and see” as he has several projects he is developing, Ansari concluded: “I’m not sure what I’ll do next. But I would love to finish it. The project is something that means a lot to all of us, and it definitely comes up. There’s probably a world where we’ll finish it at some point.”
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The film was based on the 2014 non-fiction book Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the EndWritten by practicing surgeon Atul Gawande.
During production in 2022, a female crew member filed a complaint against Murray, Accused him of groping and kissing her through the niqab,
In those days, lost in Translation Starr described the incident as a “difference of opinion”. Saying that he “did something I thought was funny and it wasn’t taken that way.”
It was reported that the actor eventually mediated with the woman and reached a settlement of just over $100,000.
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earlier this year, Murray pushed back on the allegations in an interview new York Times,
“I tried to make peace. I thought I was trying to make peace. I guess I ended up having to do the barbecue,” Groundhog Day The actor said about the reaction he received.
“But everyone I worked with, everyone I had lunch with on different days of the week — it was COVID, we were all wearing masks, and we were all trapped in this one room listening to this crazy scene. I don’t know what inspired me to do it,” he added.
“It’s something I’ve done before with someone else, and I thought it was funny, and every time it happened, it Was funny. I was wearing a mask and I gave her a kiss and she was wearing a mask. it wasn’t like me touched her, but it was just, I gave her a kiss through the mask. And she was no stranger,” Murray said.
“It still bothers me,” he continued, “because that movie was stopped by the human rights or ‘H&R’ of the Disney corporation, which is maybe a little more stringent than some other countries. It turned out that there were pre-existing conditions and all that kind of stuff. I’m like, what? How was anyone supposed to know anything about something like this? There was no negotiation, no nothing. There was no peacekeeping, no nothing. It was this crazy. Went to Arbitration Joe, if anyone ever suggests you go to arbitration: Don’t do it. Never do this. Because you think it’s justice, and it’s not.”
Does he feel he learned something from the experience Caddyshack The actor replied: “I think so. You can teach an old dog new tricks. But it was a big disappointment, because I thought I knew someone, and I didn’t. I certainly thought it was light. I thought it was funny. It’s still funny to me, the idea that you can kiss someone wearing a mask. It’s still stupid. It was everything.”