10 Fascinating Hollywood Stories You Didn't Know
5. Bruce Willis Was Bill Murray's Slave
Before Die Hard and Moonlighting, before he was even an extra in The Verdict and The First Deadly Sin, Bruce Willis worked backstage on Saturday Night Live, but don’t go thinking that he had an easy, cushy job that helped propel him to stardom.
Employed as a page, which in plain English means slave, his job was to fill the peanut bowls in the actors’ dressing rooms. Hardly glamourous work, and most of the people were rude to him save for two stars – the late Gilda Radner and Bill Murray.
Decades later, the pair worked together on a pair of films – Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom and Barry Levinson’s Rock The Kasbah. Murray was unaware of their past until Willis brought it up over drinks one evening, which Murray subsequently reiterated to the crowd at Comic-Con.