Although he has built a great career in comedy, Seth Green, who co-created adult animated comedy show Robot Chicken, had an initiation into the industry that involves a dark encounter with none other than SNL alum Bill Murray
. Green recalled meeting the Ghostbusters legend in the hallways of Studio 8 while doing Saturday Night Live, and it wasn’t pretty. Green has talked about this incident in the past, but now he shares that the advice he got afterward was the only thing he needed to go on.
The actor of franchises like Austin Powers spoke to ComicBook about the 20th anniversary of Robot Chicken, the stop-motion sketch show he co-created with Matthew Senreich for Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim. Green was asked about the incident when he got into an argument with comedy legend Bill Murray when he was just nine years old, and he was supposed to appear on SNL in a Weekend Update segment.
A couple of years ago, Green opened up about the incident with Murray, saying, “He dangled me over a trash can, and he was like, ‘The trash goes in the trash can!’ And I was screaming! Screaming! And I swung my arms, flailed wildly, full contact with his balls, full contact. He dropped me in the trash can. The trash can calls over. I was horrified. I ran away and hid under the table in my dressing room, and just cried and cried.”
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During his new interview, the actor revealed that he has never seen Murray again, but holds no grudges against the comedy legend. Fortunately, Green remembers that two other SNL stars came to the rescue, with Eddie Murphy offering him advice he would never forget:
“We’’e never met again. So, I don’t have any ill will towards him, that’s the funny thing. It was actually one of the more important nights in my career, as silly as that sounds, because I wanted to go home, I really was, like — I got rocked by that experience, and I didn’t want to do the job.
“It was a young Eddie Murphy and Tim Kazurinsky who took the time to find this 9-year-old and console me. I’ll never forget, Eddie was like, ‘Yo man, don’t let anybody else make you not do your job. The show must go on.'”
Green isn’t the only actor to mention Murray’s questionable behavior on set. From directors to actors, many have spoken about the actor’s inappropriate moments during film productions. In 2022, Aziz Ansari’s directorial debut Being Mortal featured Murray, but the film was shelved due to the allegations of misconduct against the actor.
Seth Green Likes Playing Howard the Duck in the MCU, But Is There a Future for Him?
In the same interview, Green spoke about his voice work. The actor started doing voices in the early 2000s in shows like Family Guy, and since then, he has provided voices to major characters in films and TV series. Green was responsible for providing the voice of Howard the Duck when the Marvel character was featured in the Guardians of the Galaxy movies. Green also shed some light on whether Marvel Studios has any intention of making a Howard the Duck solo project in the future:
“Not cinematically. Howard fit nicely in the Guardians universe. That was the perfect opportunity to check in on him. And then we’ve done a handful of What If…? [episodes] too. We’ve gotten to do some cool stuff on that. Howard’s a funny character, right? There’s some characters that are stars without needing to headline their own project. He’s a funny one, like, where it can work for mass audiences has still kind of yet to be seen.”
Source: ComicBook
Seth Green
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Seth Benjamin Gesshel-Green
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February 8, 1974
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Overbrook Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Bio
Seth Benjamin Gesshel Green born February 8 1974 is an American actor comedian voice actor and television producer He is well known for his role as Daniel Oz Osbourne in Buffy the Vampire Slayer as well as Dr Evil s son Scott in the Austin Powers series of comedy films and Mitch Miller in That 70s Show He also voices the characters of Chris Griffin on Family Guy Lieutenant Gibbs in Titan Maximum Jeff Joker Moreau in the Mass Effect video game series and is one of the creators and producers of the stop motion comedy series Robot Chicken in which he also voices many characters Green has appeared in many other movies such as Rat Race The Italian Job Can t Hardly Wait Without a Paddle and as a child in the horror film Stephen King s It