‘You’re Bill Groundhog-Day-Ghostbusting-Ass Murray’: ‘mainstream’ success, star agency and cult reinvention

Abstract

In 2005, while promoting the release of Broken Flowers in the UK, Bill Murray told the Times: So, a while ago, I thought, I don’t really want to be a big movie star. I started taking these jobs where you don’t necessarily get paid a lot of money, but you work with people who are good and you do what you want to do. And I figured, well, maybe one of these is going to hit one day, and I’ll get whatever I need in terms of being noticed. (Anon. 2005)