Here is an excerpt from an interview with him. Supposedly him and Clint Eastwood were fired the same day from a movie back in the 60's.
"They told him his Adam's apple stuck out too far, he talked too slow and he had to get that chipped tooth fixed. I then said 'why are you firing me?' and they said 'you can't act!'"
Burt, who was told to change his name from Buddy during his first audition, continued: "So we were walking to his truck and I said 'you're in a hell of a lot of trouble'… I said 'I'll eventually learn to act. You'll never get rid of that Adam's apple'."
He also use to guest host the Tonight show for Johnny Carson. He did well in that role.
When its time to fight, you fight like you are the third monkey on the ramp to get on Noah's Arc... and brother, it is starting to rain!
Can't begin to think of my childhood as a mini-redneck without Snowman and the Bandit. Six Pack was another good spinoff...with a better Stormy than Daniels.
Jackie cussed too much for my Mom to actually let me see the movie, even though my Dad made his dialogue seem angelic on a daily basis....
Let's talk about roles. In the book you talk about a lot of the roles you passed up when you were at the top: Han Solo, Michael Corleone, Rocky Balboa. The Bruce Willis part in Die Hard** ; the Jack Nicholson part in **** One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ; Richard Gere's part in Pretty Woman.
Smokey and the Bandit was an American self-portrait ca. 1977.
RIP Burt Reynolds, and congrats on a long and eventful life.
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
Four that he shagged in his prime were indeed Sally Fields, Dinah Shore, Loni Anderson, and Judy Carne (remember her...?) and probably a whole stable of others - some known names and some not known.
A good entertaining actor in his prime, too and a former FSU running bacl. Quite a life well played.
It's official. I missed the selfie deadline so I'm Maser's sock puppet because rene and the Polish half of the fubar twins have decided that I am.
