'Dying From Shame': Geena Davis Opens Up About Bill Murray Harassing Her On Set

Geena Davis revealed her experience working with Bill Murray on the 1990 movie "Quick Change," in her new memoir titled "Dying of Politeness."

The Oscar-winning actress detailed the alleged harassment she suffered at the hands of Murray and explained why she chose to open up about it to the world now.

Davis said she had "several uneasy exchanges" with the actor throughout the production of their movie. One of those instances included Murray insisting on using a massage device on her despite her refusal when they first met up to discuss her role in a hotel suite, the actress revealed in her book.

"I said no multiple times, but he wouldn't relent," she wrote. "I would have had to yell at him and cause a scene if I was to get him to give up trying to force me to do it; the other men in the room did nothing to make it stop."

Davis said she later found out the massager was used to test her and see if she was going to be "compliant."

The actress also recalled elsewhere in the book about the highly acclaimed actor's difficult behavior on the first day of filming. She claimed she was waiting on the wardrobe team to adjust her outfit when Murray suddenly approached her, "violently banging the door open" and screaming, "WHAT THE F**K ARE YOU DOING?"

Davis revealed Murray continued to yell at her as he followed her from the trailer to the set, in front of the entire production team and dozens of onlookers. "And with that, he got behind me and roared in my ears, out of the trailer, onto the street. There were easily more than 300 there—and Murray was still screaming at me, for all to see and hear," she wrote.

The "Thelma & Louise" actress said the incident was so traumatizing that it left her "shaking all over, dying from shame."

Despite the experience, Davis stressed that the point of her writing about this was not to expose Murray's "dark side" but "to show how like so many women in a situation like that, I didn't know how to avoid being treated that way."

In an interview with People, Davis pointed out that Murray was aware of his behavior so her memoir should not come as a surprise to him. "I figure it's sort of rather universally known that he could be difficult to work with," she said. "And so I don't feel like I'm busting him in a way that will necessarily shock him. I think he knows very well the way he can behave."