Sunday morning didn’t start well for curmudgeonly comic actor Bill Murray when he was asked about playing “cross-generational friendship” roles during his Hollywood career.Your question is stultifying. I’m frozen with it,” Murray told the moderator at the St. Vincent press conference at the Toronto Film Festival. “If there’s a through-line in my work, I’m glad that you have found it,” he added. With St. Vincent director Theodore Melfi and co-stars Noami Watts and Melissa McCarthy alongside and laughing, Murray said it was predictable he would play the father, uncle or neighbor for younger directors like Wes Anderson and Melfi. “It’s kind of great because you end up working with some people with talent, and you get to do something different,” he insisted.
