Margaret Qualley hints at Murray-MacDowell reunion in Charleston

Margaret Qualley says she tried to play matchmaker for her mother, Andie MacDowell, after a chance backstage encounter with Bill Murray, revealing on a recent episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon that the two former Groundhog Day costars might be living in the same city and could be a potential match. Qualley, promoting her new film Honey Don’t, described Murray’s post-show visit, his Charleston residence, and the conversation in which he recalled tensions with MacDowell during the 1993 comedy, suggesting there may be an opportunity for reconciliation if both parties are interested.

Qualley told Fallon that Murray “popped into my backstage dressing room” and was wearing a Piggly Wiggly shirt, a detail she tied to growing up in North Carolina. She then learned Murray and MacDowell are both living in Charleston, with a sense of unfinished business between them from their Groundhog Day days. Murray, according to Qualley, recalled experiences from the movie set, saying, “You know, your mom and I, we didn’t get along so good while we were making that movie,” followed by a remark about MacDowell “taking a long time to get her hair done” and “she didn’t know her lines...