Bill Murray 🎙️: ‘We are afraid to die and afraid to kill’ independent.co.uk/arts-entertain…
🗣️ The comedy great sits down with classical cellist Jan Vogler and talks to Kevin EG Perry about the pandemic being this generation’s ‘most challenging time’, his cure for depression and shooting a majestic concert movie at the Acropolis of Athens 
Of all the unlikely places Bill Murray appeared, the nearly 2,000-year-old stage of the Odeon of Herodes Atticus might just be the unlikeliest
The theatre, on the southwest slope of the Acropolis of Athens, is the setting for his new concert film, New Worlds: The Cradle of Civilization.
Filmed before the pandemic in 2018, it looks so carefree as to feel like a time capsule.
Filmed before the pandemic in 2018, it looks so carefree as to feel like a time capsule.
There’s nothing quite like a global pandemic, he says, to put the kibosh on spontaneous interaction.
“We just went out with our friend to walk the dog, and you’re wearing a mask, everyone’s wearing a mask. The dog is the only one who’s completely alive!”
“We just went out with our friend to walk the dog, and you’re wearing a mask, everyone’s wearing a mask. The dog is the only one who’s completely alive!”
“He’s living the dog’s life. The rest of us are afraid to die, and afraid to kill, so we’re masked up and we’re injected, and so forth. It’s the most challenging time of this life cycle for us. We didn’t have a world war or a depression, the things our ancestors had”
Read the full interview: independent.co.uk/arts-entertain…
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