Chloe East waves to Bill Murray every day. She got a huge kick out of doing it for real, even though that first impression could have gone better. Over a Zoom interview, the effervescent star of the new horror movie “Heretic” (in theaters now) proudly shows off a gigantic “Lost in Translation” poster in her house – a “mistake purchase,” East says, considering she thought it’d be smaller – and shares how she ended up sitting next to Murray at the 2023 Screen Actors Guilds Awards alongside her co-stars in Steven Spielberg’s “ The Fabelmans .
” “That was a crazy moment. I was like, ‘Do I tell him that I eat breakfast with him every day?’ ” East says, petting her “needy” dog Michael. “I was like, ‘Hey Bill, I'm Chloe.
’ And he is like, ‘Yeah, I'm Bill.’ I was like, ‘I know.’ And then I just couldn't say anything else.
I had the photo pulled up to show him and everything.” Join our Watch Party! Sign up to receive USA TODAY's movie and TV recommendations right in your inbox. More A-list meetings are likely on the way for this rising star.
East, 23, appears in upcoming movies with Amy Adams, Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie, and notches her first lead film role in “Heretic.” She and Sophie Thatcher (“Yellowjackets”) play Mormon missionaries who knock at the door of the scholarly Mr. Reed (Hugh Grant), who makes the young women question their beliefs and faith as well as completely terrorizes them.
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