But things took a turn: “Then it started to get itchy, and then it started to just get ridiculous and unruly. To where, I never used to comb my hair. Yeah, but I’m having to comb my beard,” the star said, calling his beard a “super pain in the ass.”
However, his look has been put to good use when it comes to the spirit of Christmas. “Long story short, ’tis the holiday season and you know what? Let’s go and do full Santa,” he said. “We did a toy drive [this week] and went completely white everything and [I] was Nick Jr. [I’m] not old enough to be Santa quite yet, but I can be Santa’s son.”
His two kids (who he shares with wife Sarah Roemer) joined as well. “They went,” he said. “We want to teach them a thing or two about giving back.”
As for his latest project, Murray explained how he prepared for playing a villain onscreen in Fortress, co-starring Bruce Willis.
“Even your own negative traits that you’re not such a fan of,” he said, “you go on to put that in there and you just borrow a little traits from people you see people watching you throw them all in and, and that’s really what Balzary is, he’s kind of this conglomerate of all these ideas that I had and all together.”
He’s “had the pleasure of working” with Willis a few times in the past. “We’ve created rapport, and it’s so humbling to know that you’re looking at your childhood hero,” Murray reflected. “Yeah, to have the opportunity now to have an artistic relationship and that’s what we’ve gotten to it’s not like, you don’t have to kind of contain your excitement anymore.”
Fortress will also be available on Blu-Ray and DVD on Dec. 21.