Rick Moranis is ‘fine’ after being attacked by unknown assailant in New York
Surveillance clip shows a man passing Moranis on the street and suddenly punching him, knocking the actor to the ground
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Your support makes all the difference.A representative for Rick Moranis has said the actor is “fine” after he was assaulted in an unprovoked attack in New York.
The Honey I Shrunk the Kids star, also known for his role in the original Ghostbusters films, was attacked on Thursday 1 October while walking near his apartment building on the Upper West Side in Manhattan.
A surveillance clip, recorded on Thursday (1 October), shows a man passing Moranis on the street and suddenly punching him, knocking the actor to the ground.
Moranis, 67, took himself to hospital in the wake of the attack, where he was treated for pain in his head, back and right hip, police have confirmed.
The NYPD referred to the attack as “random” and “unprovoked.”
“Rick Moranis was assaulted on the Upper West Side yesterday. He is fine but grateful for everyone’s thoughts and well wishes,” a spokesperson for the actor said in a statement to The New York Times.
Moranis’s other credits include the Star Wars spoof Spaceballs and the 1994 live-action version of The Flintstones.
In September, he broke a 13-year acting hiatus by appearing in an advert for a US phone company. He will also appear in a forthcoming spin-off of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.
The film, Shrunk, will star Josh Gad as the grown-up son of Moranis’s character Wayne Szalinski.