Sigourney Weaver just told a story on the PBS Mark Twain award for Bill Murray, about how he used to tickle her between shoots.
The Internet said:There had been a reporting from WAY back (pre-TMF) - which I don't know if is true - that Bill Murray was tickling her stand-in during the shooting of "Ghostbusters". Can anyone confirm that?
OK, here's the real deal with this:
If someone has access to LexisNexis (remember, not all articles of all time are searchable on google. Somebody LexisNexis this. I'm telling you, it's there), you can find a MAINSTREAM article (sometime in the late 80s or 90s) from some film magazine that relates a behind the scenes anecdote about how there was a body double/stuntwoman of Sigourney Weaver during the scene where the possessed version of her character floats over the bed.
This scene here (remove the space before Ghostbusters):
pic:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fGpywwZI8c0/VUUHBQz1UWI/AAAAAAAAkJE/sOsWXWxKFuU/s1600/ Ghostbusters_225Pyxurz.jpg
video (the part we're talking about starts at 2:43) remove space [NO ACTUAL TICKLING IS FILMED]:
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=Sc4g1glBT8U
According the article, the body double of S. Weaver was in there for quite some time, between shots, as filming tends to take a while sometimes. Remember in 1984 there was no CGI, so all of this stuff needed to be done with camera tricks and elaborate props. So what they did was have this stunt double in a sort of body cast from her torso to right above her knees (covered by her dress. Again, look at the pic). And it slowly spun her around over the bed. So between takes while the stuntwoman was trapped in there probably for at least an hour, Bill Murry at one point pretended he was a dog and was barking around the set and went over to the "floating" woman and started LICKING her bare feet while she was trapped in the body cast/harness. That's right, LICKING her feet, all over. I'm swear I'm not making this up. The stunt double apparently had very ticklish feet and was in hysterics. (It was NOT Sigourney Weaver herself though, which is fine by me because I never particularly found her that attractive. Good actress, but not my cup of tea. Anywho...)
Someone with access to LexisNexis, do a search for "Bill Murray ghostbusters dog feet licking" (no quotes) and it's bound to come up. I don't even think you need to type in the word "tickle" or "tickling" but that might help. But I swear that article exists.
WOW how awesome would it be if there was actual behind the scenes footage of this somewhere??
[By the way I'm going completely from my memory of reading the article, oh, about 20 years ago. (I no longer have access to lexisnexis) It could be that he tickled/licked the feet of the "dream ghost" who was also suspended, very briefly, over Dan Aykroyd, played by the SUPER HOT Kymberly Herrin:
https://dudo6el28sqqp.cloudfront.net/gothamistgallery/2016/4/11/ 54bd45ea0-square.jpeg
But I could have sworn it was the S. Weaver scene.]
OK, here's the real deal with this:
If someone has access to LexisNexis (remember, not all articles of all time are searchable on google. Somebody LexisNexis this. I'm telling you, it's there), you can find a MAINSTREAM article (sometime in the late 80s or 90s) from some film magazine that relates a behind the scenes anecdote about how there was a body double/stuntwoman of Sigourney Weaver during the scene where the possessed version of her character floats over the bed.
This scene here (remove the space before Ghostbusters):
pic:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fGpywwZI8c0/VUUHBQz1UWI/AAAAAAAAkJE/sOsWXWxKFuU/s1600/ Ghostbusters_225Pyxurz.jpg
video (the part we're talking about starts at 2:43) remove space [NO ACTUAL TICKLING IS FILMED]:
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=Sc4g1glBT8U
According the article, the body double of S. Weaver was in there for quite some time, between shots, as filming tends to take a while sometimes. Remember in 1984 there was no CGI, so all of this stuff needed to be done with camera tricks and elaborate props. So what they did was have this stunt double in a sort of body cast from her torso to right above her knees (covered by her dress. Again, look at the pic). And it slowly spun her around over the bed. So between takes while the stuntwoman was trapped in there probably for at least an hour, Bill Murry at one point pretended he was a dog and was barking around the set and went over to the "floating" woman and started LICKING her bare feet while she was trapped in the body cast/harness. That's right, LICKING her feet, all over. I'm swear I'm not making this up. The stunt double apparently had very ticklish feet and was in hysterics. (It was NOT Sigourney Weaver herself though, which is fine by me because I never particularly found her that attractive. Good actress, but not my cup of tea. Anywho...)
Someone with access to LexisNexis, do a search for "Bill Murray ghostbusters dog feet licking" (no quotes) and it's bound to come up. I don't even think you need to type in the word "tickle" or "tickling" but that might help. But I swear that article exists.
WOW how awesome would it be if there was actual behind the scenes footage of this somewhere??
[By the way I'm going completely from my memory of reading the article, oh, about 20 years ago. (I no longer have access to lexisnexis) It could be that he tickled/licked the feet of the "dream ghost" who was also suspended, very briefly, over Dan Aykroyd, played by the SUPER HOT Kymberly Herrin:
https://dudo6el28sqqp.cloudfront.net/gothamistgallery/2016/4/11/ 54bd45ea0-square.jpeg
But I could have sworn it was the S. Weaver scene.]
Great find; I periodically search You Tube for her segment of the Mark Twain Bill Murray special (or the whole special itself), but have never had any luck. Bill's a 'ler, no question about it!
About 26 minutes in or so, space between forward slash and video. Wasn't sure if I should direct link:
https://www.pbs.org/ video/mark-twain-prize-bill-murray-kennedy-center-mark-twain-prize/