This tale about Deliverance is the best Burt Reynolds story we’ve read today
Burt Reynolds has died aged 82 and there have been no end of tributes from people, including this one by Hadley Freeman in the Guardian.
It’s well worth a read, but it’s not the reason we’re here. This is, a story about the star in the comments (by SolentBound) which will raise a smile as you raise a glass to a proper movie star.
And in case that’s trick to read, here it is again.
‘The film is infamous for cutting costs by not insuring the production and having the actors do their own stunts (most notably, Jon Voight climbed the cliff himself).
In one scene, the stunt coordinator decided that a scene showing a canoe with a dummy of Burt Reynolds in it looked phony; he said it looked “like a canoe with a dummy in it.”
Reynolds requested to have the scene re-shot with himself in the canoe rather than the dummy.
After shooting the scene, Reynolds, coughing up river water and nursing a broken coccyx, asked how the scene looked. The director responded, “like a canoe with a dummy in it.”‘
Great scene, amazing film.