Bill Murray's sardine battle

14-10-2008 13:30

Bill Murray struggled to eat sardines for his new movie.The 'Lost in Translation' star portrays an overweight mayor in 'City of Ember' and admits he struggled with his on-screen diet.He said: "I'm not really a sardine guy. I do like caviar and I like eggplant. And I can eat copious amounts of caviar and a fair amount of eggplant. "This was the most sardines I've eaten in my entire life. And I associate sardines with being these little things, but these weren't. It was a lot of sardine, more than I ever had."The actor also revealed he had problems with voicing an animated character in forthcoming movie 'Fantastic Mr. Fox'.He added: "I'll be playing the badger. I worked really, really hard on a Wisconsin accent, because I thought that would be an appropriate badger voice. And for the first couple of scenes I did this Wisconsin badger voice that I thought was so funny.""I did the first couple scenes and then the director goes, 'Nah, I don't think so. I would think it's kind of a Savile Row badger.' Who here has seen a badger walkin' down Savile Row? Anybody?