‘Drunken bully’: Richard Dreyfuss slams former co-star Bill Murray

A former co-star of Bill Murray has made shock claims about his behaviour and accused him of throwing an ashtray at his head.

One of Bill Murray’s former co-stars has slammed the famous comedian, claiming he was a “drunken bully” on the set of their movie.

Richard Dreyfuss made the accusation when discussing filming on their 1991 film, What About Bob?, which tells the story of an obsessive-compulsive neurotic (Murray) who follows his new therapist (Dreyfuss) on a vacation with his family.

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What About Bob? was a 1991 comedy starring Murray and Dreyfuss.

“I didn’t talk about it for years. Bill just got drunk at dinner,” the 71-year-old actor said in a new interview with Yahoo. “He was an Irish drunken bully, is what he was.”

He went on to explain that one night Dreyfuss asked Murray, 68, to read a tweak in the script that he thought was funny.

“He put his face next to me, nose-to-nose and he screamed at the top of his lungs, ‘Everyone hates you! You are tolerated!’” he said.

Murray reportedly ‘screamed’ at his co-star. Picture: AFP Photo/Kenzo Tribouillard

Dreyfuss has terrible memories of working on the movie. Picture: Christian Gilles

He continued, “There was no time to react because he leaned back and he took a modern glass-blown ashtray. He threw it at my face from (only a couple feet away). And it weighed about three-quarters of a pound. And he missed me. He tried to hit me. I got up and left.”

A rep for Murray did not immediately return a request for comment.

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