1. Bill Murray - Garfield 2
There are so many stories which swirl around Bill Murray, whose turn as Dr Peter Venkman in Ghostbusters (1984) should have won him an Oscar. My favourites are: Murray stopping by a construction site to read poems to the builders; getting arrested while driving a golf cart under the influence of excessive alcohol intake; telling Lucy Liu, on the set of Charlie's Angels, just how little he thought of her acting abilities, thus scuppering his chances of appearing in the sequel (lucky break); and starring in Garfield (2004) due to something of a misunderstanding. He saw the name "Joel Cohen" attached to the Garfield project and assumed that this was the Oscar-winning director of Fargo, The Big Lebowski, Barton Fink and No Country for Old Men. Unfortunately, for Bill, he was thinking of Joel Coen - without a "H" in his name. Joel Cohen with an "H" is the guy who made Daddy Day Camp, Evan Almighty and Cheaper By the Dozen, by the way. This explains how he came to offer his vocal talents for the first movie, but not the second - Garfield: A Tale Of Two Kitties (2006). One can only wonder at the size of the cheque which induced him to abandon his newly found throne as indie comedy drama king - gained through movies like Lost In Translation (2003) and Broken Flowers (2005) - for some added mainstream love.
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