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Margaret Qualley is attempting to play matchmaker for her mother Andie MacDowell and her former Groundhog Day costar Bill Murray
Qualley revealed on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon that she offered to connect Murray and MacDowell after learning that both actors currently live in Charleston, S.C.
“She’s single, he’s single, they’re both crazy. Let’s get it together!” Qualley said
Margaret Qualley played matchmaker for her mother, Andie MacDowell, during her most recent appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
Qualley — who appeared on Jimmy Fallon’s late-night talk show on Thursday, Aug. 14 to promote her new movie Honey Don’t! — revealed that Bill Murray visited her dressing room before she took the stage.
The meeting prompted the younger actress to suggest that Murray give his former Groundhog Day costar, Qualley’s mom, a call.
“Okay, I once tried to set up Bill Murray with my mom,” Qualley, 30, said while playing a game of “True or False” with the host. Fallon, 50, incorrectly guessed that Qualley’s claim was false. “True,” Qualley revealed.
She continued, joking, “Breaking news! Yeah, no. Literally tonight. Bill Murray popped into my backstage dressing room.”
“This just happened tonight?” Fallon asked. “Just now! Breaking news!” Qualley quipped.
“So he pops in, he’s all — you know what? He’s wearing a Piggly Wiggly shirt, and I grew up in North Carolina, and Piggly Wiggly’s a southern thing, I think,” Qualley said, referencing the grocery store chain. “Cut to — I find out he’s living in Charleston. My mom’s living in Charleston. I know.”
“He was like ‘You know, your mom and I, we didn’t get along so good while we were making that movie,’ ” Qualley added. “And he was like, ‘She took a long time to get her hair done, and she didn’t know her lines this one time,’ and I was like, ‘Yeah, well I heard a different story, sir.’ “
Qualley said, ” I’m putting two and two together, he’s living in Charleston, she’s living in Charleston, they’ve got this kind of rage towards each other, but maybe he’s trying to make amends. I’m like she’s single, he’s single, they’re both crazy. Let’s get it together!”
Qualley is one of three children whom MacDowell, 67, shares with her ex-husband Paul Qualley. The former couple were married from 1986 until their 1999 divorce. MacDowell later married businessman Rhett Hartzog in 2001 and divorced from him in 2004.
MacDowell and Murray, 74, famously costarred in the 1993 rom-com Groundhog Day, which featured Murray as a weatherman who experiences Groundhog Day on a loop for an unknown amount of time. MacDowell portrayed his producer; the pair gradually fall in love over the course of the movie, which famously held a tense shoot due to a conflict between Murray and the movie’s director, Harold Ramis.
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Andie MacDowell and Margaret Qualley on Feb. 20, 2024
On The Tonight Show, Qualley said she told Murray “to come circle back and get my number if he wants me to connect him with my mom, and if he’s got any sense at all, he’d be the luckiest guy in the world.”
“This is the biggest tea that’s ever been spilled on The Tonight Show,” Fallon remarked, to which Qualley added, “We’ll see. I hope he’s listening right now. Hi, Bill.”
Qualley’s new movie Honey Don’t! is in theaters Aug. 22.
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