Mystery That Keeps On Being Mysterious

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Before last night’s screening of Nope I had never paid much attention to Keke Palmer. I’m sorry but nothing she’d appeared in seemed edgy or alluring enough. But now Palmer is a name — she’s crossed over. And not just over her noteworthy Nope performance, but because of the Being Mortal thing.

I probably shouldn’t mention this, I realize, because everyone in the media seems to have sworn an oath of silence. But why is everyone being so silent?

I’m sorry but there was that kerfuffle last April (technically in late March) in which people were asking “what happened on the Being Mortal set, and what was it that Bill Murray did to piss somebody off so badly that the whole movie shut down…how is it that Aziz Ansari’s stab at launching a directing career was blown to pieces because of something that happened of a relatively minor, non-assaultive nature…something that nobody will talk about?”

Filming on Being Mortal was suspended after the mysterious, never-described incident of 3.28.22, and then the whole project vaporized. Nearly four months have passed and that film has been all but forgotten about.

All we know is that Murray did something he “thought was funny but it wasn’t taken that way.”

Palmer was asked about the incident on a Nope red carpet, and apart from saying that she loved working with Ansari she claimed to know nothing.

When’s the last time that a film stopped shooting over someone taking offense over something that happened that didn’t involve anything felonious?

I KNOW NOTHING, but the fact that nobody will say anything almost certainly proves that some kind of hot-button, hot-potato, avert-your-eyes issue is behind it. Murray aside nobody has said boo about it for three and a half months, which suggests that the complainer wasn’t a makeup or wardrobe person or a craft services guy or a truck driver.