Actor Lucy Liu has finally addressed the longstanding rumours regarding an altercation with co-star Bill Murray on the set of their 2000 film Charlie’s Angels. In the latest episode of the Los Angeles Times podcast Asian Enough, the actor recalled that the argument happened when they were rehearsing a scene and said that Murray had used some “inexcusable and unacceptable” language towards her.

“We had taken the weekend to rework that particular scene and Bill Murray was not able to come because he had to attend some family gathering. So it was everyone else, and we just made the scene more fluid,” she said.

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Murray returned and found that one of his scenes had been altered in his absence. He then began to “sort of hurl insults” at her.“

“I was, like, ‘Wow, he seems like he’s looking straight at me.’ I couldn’t believe that [his comments] could be towards me, because what do I have to do with anything majorly important at that time? I say, ‘I’m so sorry. Are you talking to me?’—and clearly he was, because then it started to become a one-on-one communication,” she said. 

“I was not going to just sit there and take it. So, yes, I stood up for myself, and I don’t regret it,” Liu added. 

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She went on to say that the media coverage about the entire incident was one-sided and sexist.

“What came out in the press was that I was this and I was that. It was incredible to me how it was turned around, and they automatically thought that the woman was the difficult one,” she said.

“But I didn’t understand how it got flipped when I had nothing to do with instigating it, or creating that platform of confrontation or anxiety.”