Bill Murray

Bill Murray has admitted he wishes he hadn’t passed on the opportunity to work with Clint Eastwood on one of the Hollywood icon’s movies.

“It’s one of the few regrets I have is that I didn’t do it,” Murray said recently on The Howard Stern Show. He appeared to be referring to Heartbreak Ridge, the 1986 war drama directed and produced by Eastwood.

The Lost In Translation actor, who had starred in director Ivan Reitman’s 1981 military action comedy Stripes, said he was compelled to call Eastwood “out of the blue” after seeing films like his 1974 crime comedy Thunderbolt And Lightfoot.

Murray recalled Eastwood avenging the killing of his “sidekick” Lightfoot (played by Jeff Bridges), adding that Lightfoot had both a “great part” and a “great death scene” in........

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