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During the filming of 1984’s City Heat, Reynolds was struck in the face by a metal chair and shattered his jaw. "I can't believe I did all those bad films in a row until I looked at the list," he said. The 1980s weren’t always kind to Reynolds. AN ON-SET STUNT CAUSED HIM A LIFE OF PAIN. And at the end of the tirade, he said, ‘If you can do that in the movie, you’ll get nominated for an Academy Award.’ And he was right.” 4. “And I said, ‘Look, you don’t get it.’ And I went a little berserk. “One night-the eighth time- came to my hotel room,” Reynolds recalled. Anderson asked seven times, and got seven passes from Reynolds. Paul Thomas Anderson was adamant that Burt Reynolds play iconoclastic porn producer Jack Horner in his 1997 masterpiece, Boogie Nights, despite Reynolds’s aversion to the material. HE TURNED DOWN HIS OSCAR-NOMINATED ROLE IN BOOGIE NIGHTS.
I think it cost Ned Beatty, who certainly deserved an Oscar nomination. “I thought it cost some actors in Deliverance an Academy Award,” Reynolds told Morgan. The issue came out only a short time before Deliverance was released in theaters and all 1.6 million copies of the magazine sold out.ĭespite the popularity of the spread, Reynolds came to believe that it may have distracted from the critical reception of Deliverance. “I thought it would be a kick,” Reynolds said. Editor Helen Gurley Brown asked Reynolds to do the photo shoot after the two appeared together on The Tonight Show. “I’m very embarrassed by it,” Reynolds told Piers Morgan. What may be less known is that he regretted that decision. It may be common knowledge that Burt Reynolds posed naked in Cosmopolitan. HE POSED NUDE IN A 1972 ISSUE OF COSMOPOLITAN. “Nobody told me I could have probably done Terms and Universal would have waited until I was finished before making Stroker.” The role went to Jack Nicholson, who took home the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in 1984. “When it came time to choose between Terms and Stroker, I chose the latter because I felt I owed Hal more than I did Jim,” Reynolds explained (Needham also directed Smokey and the Bandit, Hooper, and The Cannonball Run). Brooks approached him about playing Garrett Breedlove in 1983’s Terms of Endearment, Reynolds balked, instead taking a role in Hal Needham’s Stroker Ace. The role Reynolds laments turning down the most, however, is a role that was written specifically with him in mind. It just can’t be done.’ And they really tried to talk me into it. As Reynolds explained it: “In my infinite wisdom, I said to Cubby Broccoli, ‘An American can’t play James Bond. More notably, and perhaps more regrettably, Reynolds turned down a chance to play James Bond in 1969. Although he doesn't regret that final one: “I don’t regret turning down anything Bruce Willis did,” Reynolds told Piers Morgan. McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Edward Lewis in Pretty Woman, and John McClane in Die Hard. And Reynolds turned down a lot, including (by his own admission in the video above) Han Solo in Star Wars, R.P.
Over the course of a near-60-year career, one is bound to pass on some prime roles. Here are 10 things you may not have known about the mustachioed Hollywood icon, who passed away on Septemat the age of 82.
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Though he hit a bit of a rough patch for a few years, all of that changed when Reynolds agreed to star in Boogie Nights, Paul Thomas Anderson’s 1997 ode to pornography, which earned the actor a Golden Globe award, a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination, and one of the biggest comebacks of the decade. Reynolds followed Deliverance up with such hits as Smokey and The Bandit (a film Playboy called “the Gone with the Wind of good-ol’-boy movies”), Semi-Tough, The Cannonball Run, and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.
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He got his start in a series of television roles, including a regular gig on the western series Riverboat, then hit the big screen big time with his breakout role in John Boorman’s 1972 backwoods classic, Deliverance. To put it in perspective: Every year from 1973 to 1984, Reynolds was listed as one of Quigley’s “Top 10 Money Makers,” and held the top spot on the annual poll from 1978 to 1982 (the only other person to boast a record five consecutive years at the top of the list is Bing Crosby, back in the 1940s).Īfter a serious knee injury and subsequent car accident ended a promising football career at Florida State University, Reynolds found his way into acting.
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If your first memory of Burton Leon Reynolds is from the 1993 film Cop and a Half, then you’re probably too young to remember-or even realize-that Burt Reynolds was once Hollywood's biggest movie star.