--- title: Bill Murray Crashed Mahershala Ali Golden Globes Interview description: Bill Murray crashed Mahershala Ali's Golden Globes interview—and then spilled vodka on his face canonical: https://time.com/5495999/bill-murray-mahershala-ali-golden-globes/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-01-08T17:27:47.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:56:46.317Z og:title: Bill Murray Crashed Mahershala Ali Golden Globes Interview og:description: And then Murray spilled vodka on Ali’s face og:url: https://time.com/5495999/bill-murray-mahershala-ali-golden-globes/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6e6e671d0ba8050a/698942df7cdbac10dcd5ed3d/ali-globes-social.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1602 og:image:height: 901 og:image:alt: 76th Annual Golden Globe Awards - Press Room og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Bill Murray Crashed Mahershala Ali Golden Globes Interview twitter:description: And then Murray spilled vodka on Ali’s face twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6e6e671d0ba8050a/698942df7cdbac10dcd5ed3d/ali-globes-social.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # You Probably Missed the Wild Thing Bill Murray Did to Mahershala Ali at the Golden Globes > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images) From left, Viggo Mortensen, Peter Farrelly, Linda Cardellini, and Mahershala Ali pose in the press room during the 76th Annual Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 6, 2019 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images) Kevin Winter—Getty Images by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jan 8, 2019 5:27 PM UTC [Mahershala Ali](http://time.com/5454745/best-movie-performances-2018/) won big at the Golden Globes awards, walking away with the best supporting actor trophy for his performance in _Green Book,_ and an incredible [Bill Murray](http://time.com/4594137/bill-murray-sings-grandma/) story, too. Ali stopped by _The Ellen DeGeneres Show_ on Tuesday and shared a funny story about what happened on and off camera at the awards show. The [_True Detective_ star](http://time.com/4875804/moonlight-mahershala-ali-true-detective-season-3/) told host Ellen DeGeneres that he was backstage at the Beverly Hills Hotel when he ran into Murray. Ali was celebrating _Green Book_’s win in the best motion picture (musical or comedy) category with director Peter Farrelly and costars Viggo Mortensen and Linda Cardellini. Murray, who presented at the Globes, wanted to join in the party—even though the stars were doing an on-camera interview at the time. Murray grabbed a microphone and took over the interview and, as a polite celebrant, brought his own liquor to toast the stars—liquor that he promptly started spilling on their heads. “[Bill](http://time.com/3860153/) was toasting us,” Ali told DeGeneres. “Bill toasted his glass on Viggo’s head, Linda’s head, and then toasts on my head and vodka spills all over my face and is running down into my eyes and in my mouth.” Ali is a professional, of course, and even though he had vodka in his eye, which “felt like hot acid rolling down \[his\] face,” he kept speaking to the camera. “I’m doing the whole interview with an eye closed,” he told DeGeneres. However Ali didn’t mind the alcohol-infused antics after all, he got a trophy and a good story to tell, saying with a laugh: “Hey, it’s Bill Murray!” Watch Bill Murray crash the interview here: ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5495999/bill-murray-mahershala-ali-golden-globes/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5495999/bill-murray-mahershala-ali-golden-globes/"},"headline":"You Probably Missed the Wild Thing Bill Murray Did to Mahershala Ali at the Golden Globes","datePublished":"2019-01-08T17:27:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:56:46.317Z","description":"At least Ali now has a good Bill Murray story to tell","url":"https://time.com/5495999/bill-murray-mahershala-ali-golden-globes/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","Bill Murray"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6e6e671d0ba8050a/698942df7cdbac10dcd5ed3d/ali-globes-social.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6e6e671d0ba8050a/698942df7cdbac10dcd5ed3d/ali-globes-social.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"76th Annual Golden Globe Awards - Press Room","caption":"76th Annual Golden Globe Awards - Press Room","creditText":"Kevin Winter—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5495999/bill-murray-mahershala-ali-golden-globes/","name":"You Probably Missed the Wild Thing Bill Murray Did to Mahershala Ali at the Golden Globes"}}]}] ```