Lucy Liu Explains Why She Spoke Out About Bill Murray’s Behavior on Charlie’s Angels: ‘I Am Going to Protect Myself’

Lucy Liu is reflecting on her confrontation with Bill Murray while filming Charlie’s Angels, 25 years after the movie’s release.

While on the set of the 2000 action-comedy, Liu allegedly had an uncomfortable moment with Murray, who started to “hurl insults” at her while they were filming a scene, using “inexcusable and unacceptable” language, she claimed to the Los Angeles Times in 2021. Even though she felt she “probably had the least amount of privilege in terms of creatively participating,” Liu said, she stuck up for herself.

In a new interview with The Guardian, published on Monday, Jan. 13, Liu, 56, said she has no regrets about the moment.

“I really didn’t think about it,” the Kill Bill: Vol. 1 star told the outlet of her response to Murray, 74. “I would have done that in any situation. I think when I sense something is not right, I am going to protect myself. It’s an innate thing to do if you feel there’s injustice, and I always feel that way.”

Liu felt she couldn’t stay quiet, telling The Guardian, “If I was, it would have been a much easier road. But because I’ve never been that person, we had to find a way.”

After rumors about the on-set clash between Liu and Murray resurfaced on social media in 2021, Liu addressed the confrontation on the Los Angeles Times‘ Asian Enough podcast, acknowledging that some of the details were “private.”

“As we’re doing the scene, Bill starts to sort of hurl insults, and I won’t get into the specifics, but it kept going on and on,” said Liu. “I was, like, ‘Wow, he seems like he’s looking straight at me.’ I couldn’t believe that [the comments] could be towards me, because what do I have to do with anything majorly important at that time? I literally do the look around my shoulder thing, like, ‘Who is he talking to behind me?’ I say, ‘I’m so sorry. Are you talking to me?’ And clearly he was, because then it started to become a one-on-one communication.”

“Some of the language was inexcusable and unacceptable, and I was not going to just sit there and take it,” Liu continued in 2021. “So, yes, I stood up for myself, and I don’t regret it. Because no matter how low on the totem pole you may be or wherever you came from, there’s no need to condescend or to put other people down. And I would not stand down, and nor should I have.”

In the years since Liu came forward, Murray has faced several other allegations of inappropriate behavior on set. In October 2022, the actor settled with a female staffer from the set of Aziz Ansari’s film Being Mortal after he allegedly kissed and straddled her, prompting Searchlight Pictures to halt production in April 2022.

“I did something I thought was funny, and it wasn’t taken that way,” Murray told CNBC in April 2022.

Also in October 2022, Seth Green told the hosts of the Good Mythical Morning podcast that — on the set of SNL when he was only 9 years old — Murray allegedly “dangled” him over a trashcan, holding him by the ankles and eventually dropping him into it. PEOPLE reached out to Murray’s reps at the time and did not receive a response.

In an October 2022 interview with PEOPLE, Geena Davis alleged that Murray verbally berated her in front of the film crew while she waited for a wardrobe adjustment on the set of their 1990 comedy Quick Change. PEOPLE also reached out to Murray’s reps when Davis made her allegations but did not receive a response.

“For publicity, I saw him after we made the movie, but other than that, I haven’t seen him or spoken to him,” Davis, who wrote about the incident in her memoir Dying of Politeness: A Memoir, said.

“I figure it’s sort of rather universally known that he could be difficult to work with. And so I don’t feel like I’m busting him in a way that will necessarily shock him. I think he knows very well the way he can behave.”

A rep for Murray didn’t immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.