Coolest Little-Known Fact About Bill Murray9 of 26
During the production of Groundhog Day (1993), Murray was going through his first divorce, even crankier than usual, and prone to disappearing for hours at a time. To ease ‘communication’ between the star, director Harold Ramis and the studio, Murray was asked to hire a personal assistant. His solution was to employ an assistant who was profoundly deaf and spoke only in sign language, which nobody else on set - including Murray - could speak. As Ramis told Entertainment Weekly: “Bill said, ‘Don’t worry, I'm going to learn sign language.’ And I think it was so inconvenient that in a couple weeks, he gave that up. That’s anti-communication, you know? Let’s not talk.”