While promoting his new film St. Vincent, actor-comedian-tequila dispenser Bill Murray decided to preach the gospel according to the “the greatest living American” today: Ralph Nader.
Despite the ornery campaigner’s unpopularity among the general public, it seems he’s got a friend in Murray. From The Guardian:
“People thought: ‘Why is this son of a gun making me wear a seatbelt?’ Well, in 1965 I think the number was 55,000 deaths on the highway a year. That’s a lot of people dying. So he’s saved just about a couple of million people by now. It’s crazy! And that’s just one thing he did!
“I mean, they made a movie about the German who smuggled the Jews out. He saved hundreds. Great man. Deserved a movie. Spectacular. Great film and a great human being. But this guy, Ralph – there’s no movies about Ralph.”
If Bill Murray’s call for an all-female Ghostbusters can get the ball rolling for that project, maybe this will do the same for the Green Party’s candidate extraordinaire. Who knows? Maybe a movie will happen and Murray would be up for the part. Jason Schwartzman could play seatbelt-era Nader and Wes Anderson would direct.
