There’s divine casting, and then there’s divine casting.

In the case of Bill Murray, who plays the Almighty himself in The Phoenician Scheme, it’s the latter. “I don’t know that we chose Bill to play God,” writer-director Wes Anderson tells Entertainment Weekly, pausing to gleefully add, “possibly God did.”

Jokes aside, Anderson says the casting was a match made in heaven. “What I will say is when Bill walked onto the set in his robes and his beard, he could barely move. And yet he seemed very comfortable, and he occupied his throne in a relaxed manner. It just didn’t seem that he was faking it. We knew very quickly he was going to be an informal God who is creating without making a show of it.”

The film follows Benicio del Toro’s wealthy businessman Zsa-zsa Korda, who appoints his only daughter, Liesl (Mia Threapleton), a nun, as sole heir to his estate. As Liesl, Korda, and his tutor, kooky bug lover Bjorn (Michael Cera), embark together on a new enterprise, they come up against several bonkers assassination attempts, presumably from Korda’s many enemies. Each time, Korda enters a sort of liminal space —a black and white heaven —where he experiences moments of personal growth and introspection. Here, he encounters Murray’s God… among other things.

“I think some of the most important changes in Benicio’s character Zsa-zsa are taking place during these sort of visions that he’s having as he repeatedly dies, or keeps getting assassinated,” Anderson explains.

To create this heaven — a first for an Anderson joint — he knew he wanted it all to be real. “We wanted it to all exist in front of the camera, to not use computer visual effects, to have it all be there,” he says, adding, “and so we made something kind of like a 360-degree stage, a set of clouds painted, sculpted, and we created a sort of Biblical troupe for these scenes.” (Other members credited in this troupe include F. Murray Abraham, Charlotte Gainsbourg, and Willem Dafoe.) 

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“I think it’s sort of the way biblical settings and characters were portrayed during the Renaissance, I think that’s really what we’ve done,” Anderson adds. “I mean, we’re so familiar with the Renaissance representation of stories from the Bible, and ours is the black and white version of that.”

The Phoenician Scheme, which was co-written with frequent Anderson collaborator Roman Coppola, also stars Riz Ahmed, Tom Hanks, Bryan Cranston, Mathieu Amalric, Jeffrey Wright, Scarlett Johansson, Richard Ayoade, Benedict Cumberbatch, Rupert Friend, and Hope Davis. The film is now playing in theaters.

A woman says that her boyfriend has been “cut off” by his family for his decision to move in with her — but now she’s not even sure she wants to be with him.

The 26-year-old detailed her experience on a forum on the U.K.-based community site Mumsnet.com, a platform where women can seek advice from other women about interpersonal dilemmas. In her post, the woman says that she is in a “fairly new relationship” with a 22-year-old man she’s known online for “years.”

The woman explains that they only met in person in late 2024, but things “progressed quickly” after that. She says he recently moved out of his mom’s home to move in with her and her eight-year-old daughter — a decision that led to him being “cut off” by his family due to cultural reasons. 

The problem? The woman says she is feeling overextended and is now having second thoughts about whether or not living together was the right move.

“I keep having thoughts like, ‘Should he really live here?’ and ‘Am I better off alone so I can focus on myself and my child?’ ” she confesses in the post. 

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“I love him, but I’m also constantly overwhelmed,” she continues, before adding that her daughter has special needs and the majority of the mental load of maintaining the household falls on her.

“I’m mentally and physically burned out, trying to hold everything together. I feel like I never get proper alone time or space to reset,” the original poster (OP) says, adding, “I’m often irritated around him for no clear reason, even if he’s not doing anything wrong.” 

“I don’t want to lose him, but I feel disconnected, and I don’t know how to tell what’s burnout vs. what’s a sign that this isn’t working,” she says, while also saying that they both have “trust issues” due to “things that happened between us before.”

“Has anyone else been in this in-between place — loving someone, but not sure if being together is helping or hurting right now? How do you figure out what you actually need when everything feels too full to think clearly?” she asks at the end of her post.

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The vast majority of commenters provided tough love to the OP, with many stating that they believe she moved in with her boyfriend much too soon — and that she should course-correct as soon as possible.

“You shouldn’t be moving someone you barely know in with your [daughter]. Even if your child wasn’t in the picture, though, it’s a new relationship. You have enough on your plate. Ask him to leave,” said one person.

“Oh, you have gone about this completely the wrong way, I’m afraid,” said someone else. “Your relationship has alienated him from his family, which is going to put immense pressure on you both.”

They added, “I think you should tell him that he needs to go back [to] his family and end the relationship with you.”

“It’s a ludicrously unwise decision to move in a man you hardly know with your young daughter. This is not the behavior of a mature parent making good decisions for her child,” said someone else.