Scarlett Johansson Addresses 'Really Bad' 2022 Misconduct Allegations Against Her Former Costar Bill Murray

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15-05-2025

Scarlett Johansson addressed the "really bad" 2022 allegations of sexual misconduct against Bill Murray in a June 2025 interview with Vanity Fair
'But you know what? How wonderful that people can change," the actress said while discussing her Lost in Translation costar
Murray was accused of misconduct by a younger female crew member in April 2022, and reportedly reached a settlement of just over $100,000 with herScarlett Johansson believes "life has humbled" her Lost in Translation costar Bill Murray.
More than 20 years after the two actors led the Sofia Coppola-directed dramedy, Johansson, 40, spoke about Murray in her June 2025 cover interview with Vanity Fair.
'He's such a different person now," Johansson said of Murray, 74. "I think life has humbled him.'
Murray was accused of misconduct by a younger female crew member on the set of Being Mortal in April 2022, and reportedly reached a settlement of just over $100,000 with the accuser that October.
Asked whether she was referring to the misconduct allegations with her "humbled" comment, the Jurassic World Rebirth actress said, "Certainly, yes — that was really bad."
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'But," Johansson continued, "I also know COVID was a hard thing for him. Life — all these things have led up to him being held accountable for that kind of behavior.'
She added later in the interview, 'But you know what? How wonderful that people can change.'
A report published in 2022 claimed that Murray 'straddled' the crew member on a prop bed and kissed her on the mouth through masks worn for on-set COVID safety protocol.
The incident resulted in an internal on-set investigation, and the Aziz Ansari-led project, which was being produced by the Disney-owned Searchlight Pictures, was ultimately suspended indefinitely.
In a candid interview with The New York Times published April 5, Murray said he felt 'barbecued' by the experience — despite saying he had tried to 'make peace' with the affected parties.
'I don't go too many days or weeks without thinking of what happened. ... I dunno what prompted me to do it,' the Ghostbusters actor told the outlet. 'It's something that I had done to someone else before, and I thought it was funny, and every time it happened, it was funny.'
'I was wearing a mask, and I gave her a kiss, and she was wearing a mask. It wasn't like I touched her, but it was just, I gave her a kiss through a mask. And she wasn't a stranger,' he recalled, adding that he ate lunch with the person 'on various days of the week.'
When asked if he thought he had learned from the experience, Murray replied, 'I think so. ... You can teach an old dog new tricks."
"But it was a great disappointment, because I thought I knew someone, and I did not," he added. "I certainly thought it was light. I thought it was funny. To me it's still funny, the idea that you could give someone a kiss with a mask on. It's still stupid. It's all it was.'
Of their time together on Lost in Translation two decades earlier, Johansson told Vanity Fair, "Bill was in a hard place. Everybody was on tenterhooks around him, including our director and the full crew, because he was dealing with his … stuff.'
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Johansson also reflected on her own individual experience working on Lost in Translation, which premiered in theaters when she was just 18 years old, during her interview.
The film follows the unlikely kinship Johansson's married college grad Charlotte and Murray's out-of-work actor Bob strike up while abroad in Tokyo as they contemplate their futures and feelings of loneliness.
"I'm pretty proud of how I handled myself," she said of making the movie. "I really just did the work, you know? It's a good tactic for pushing through stuff.'
Added the actress, 'Eyes on the prize.'
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