Keke Palmer Talks ‘Being Mortal,’ The Film Shut Down After Complaint Against Bill Murray

deadline.com:

Keke Palmer spoke tonight about her experience on Aziz Ansari’s feature directorial debut Being Mortal. Her comments to Deadline came three months after the film shut down production due to a complaint against star Bill Murray.“I had a wonderful time filming,” Palmer began. “Aziz Ansari is one of the coolest people that I ever met.

That was the coolest experience, but I don’t know anything more than that.”Keke Palmer on production of Searchlight Pictures ‘Being Mortal’ pic.twitter.com/3Q5GmXw6ec— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) July 19, 2022Searchlight Pictures first announced Being Mortal in the spring.

Seth Rogen was also cast in the adaptation of Atul Gawande’s nonfiction book Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End.

While half of the shoot was completed by April, with the studio eyeing a 2023 release, it shuttered production indefinitely when a complaint of inappropriate behavior against Murray emerged.