Bill Murray wishes he hadn’t turned down this Clint Eastwood movie: ‘It’s one of the few regrets I have’

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during an interview on “The Howard Stern Show.”“Have you ever watched a film and said I want to act with this guy so bad?” Stern, 71, asked the “Caddyshack” star during their sit-down.“A long time ago I was watching the Clint Eastwood movies of the day, like ‘Thunderbolt and Lightfoot’ or whatever the movies he was making then,” Murray responded, “and I thought: ‘His sidekick gets killed, and he avenges, but the sidekick gets like a great part, a great death scene.'”“I was like, I got to call this guy,” he continued. “So I called him out of the blue, and he said, ‘Would you ever want to do another service comedy?’ Because I just made ‘Stripes’ and he had this great idea for an enormous Navy thing.”“And when he said, ‘Would you ever want to do another service comedy,’ like jeez, ‘Would I become like Abbott and Costello?'” Murray quipped. “I had to do like military movies?

And I said, ‘Well, God, I guess maybe I shouldn’t.'”The movie in question is most likely the 1986 dark comedy “Heartbreak Ridge.” It came out a few years after Murray’s 1981 hit “Stripes” and stars Eastwood as Gunnery Sergeant Tom Highway – a career United States Marine assigned to train a group of undisciplined recruits.According to Murray, he still regrets turning Eastwood down all these years later.“But it’s one of the few regrets I have is that I didn’t do it,” the “Ghostbusters” star admitted to Stern. “Because it was a big-scale thing, and I would have gotten a great – I don’t know if I’d have gotten a great death scene, it was more of a comedy that one – but it was great.