Seth Green Details Nasty Childhood Interaction With Bill Murray At ‘SNL’ That Left Him “Horrified” & In Tears

Beloved comedian Bill Murray’s carefully constructed image of the mischievous uncle you’d love to have a drink with has really taken a beating lately. Following reports of alleged sexual assault on the set of Aziz Ansari’s film “Being Mortal”—which shut down production on the film, though the matter was legally settled, so there won’t be any other fallout, other than a public one—everyone seems to be coming out of the woodwork with a bad Bill Murray story. Geena Davis recently said Murray humiliated her and harassed her on the set of his film, “Quick Change” in the 1990s. Now Seth Green (“Austin Powers” and “Buffy The Vampire Slayer”) is recalling a pretty horrible story from a time when he was just a kid.

Green started as a child actor, and recently, on the “Good Mythical Morning” YouTube show (see below), he retold a particularly nasty Murray story of his own. Green details where the adult actor took a 9-year-old Green and tried to put him in a trash can. This occurred after Murray believed Green had invaded his space during a “Saturday Night Live” holiday special by sitting on the arm of his chair. Of course, having a grown adult manhandling a child in this manner left Green upset and crying afterward.

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“When I was nine years old, I did a spot on ‘Saturday Night Live’ when Mary Gross was one of the on-the-scene anchor people for the news, and she did a whole thing about what kids think about the Christmas holiday,” Green explained. “[Murray] saw me sitting on the arm of this chair and made a big fuss about me being in his seat. And I was like, ‘That is absurd. I am sitting on the arm of this couch. There are several lengths of this sofa. Kindly eff off.’ And he was like, ‘That’s my chair.’”

Green alleges that Murray “picked me up by my ankles and held me upside down” to physically remove him from the chair while calling Green “trash.” “He dangled me over a trash can, and he was like, ‘The trash goes in the trash can,’” Green recalled. “And I was screaming, and I swung my arms, flailed wildly, full contact with his balls. He dropped 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.”

These aren’t the only stories of Murray’s intolerant, hostile behavior. Even former friends like Harold Ramis (“Ghostbusters”) called him “irrationally mean.” Richard Dreyfuss said Murray was a “drunken bully” and made him and everyone on the set of “What About Bob?,” Lucy Liu’s notorious stories of Murray singling her out and hating her on the set of the “Charlie’s Angels” movies border on racist abuse and the ‘Angels’ director McG said Murray physically assaulted him with a headbutt.

Filmmakers like Sofia Coppola, Jim Jarmusch, and Wes Anderson really rehabilitated the actor’s career and image over the last few years, but one has to wonder, in an age of social media wokeness where this kind of behavior is no longer tolerated (and look, being shitty to people isn’t great, regardless of how you want to spin the word “woke”), how much more of Murray’s behavior is going to be tolerated and how much this affects his career going forward.

You can watch Green’s appearance on “Good Mythical Morning,” where he recalls his Murray story below.