With films like the timeless thriller
Bitter Nightmare
It’s a cult action comedy
Catch me if you can
,
Burt Reynolds
He managed to carve his way to fame in Hollywood during the 1970s, a time when the competition among actors was one of the fiercest.
Coinciding with the emergence of what would become known as New Hollywood, led by directors such as
Martin Scorsese
,
Steven Spielberg
ou
Francis Ford Coppola
, this period and new ways of making cinema not only brought fresh air into the dream factory, but also produced numerous stars, such as
Robert De Niro
,
Meryl Streep
,
Gene Hackman
and many others, who often had to compete for the same roles.
At the same time, feature films such as
Shark
e
Star Wars
They marked the beginning of blockbuster movies, and not all actors of that time were equally successful in accepting or rejecting certain roles. Others had the bad luck of not being better than their competition.
In this context, Burt Reynolds, a veteran actor who was one of Hollywood’s most promising stars in the 1970s, lost his role in the masterpiece
A Stranger in the Nest
(1975) for
Jack Nicholson
, while three years earlier, he had lost a role in one of the best films in the history of cinema: Reynolds could have played Michael Corleone in the unforgettable
The Godfather
(1972) de
Francis Ford Coppola
in 1972, but the star
Marlon Brando
, who played Vito Corleone, issued an ultimatum: if they hired Reynolds, he would leave the film.
That was just one of the times when Marlon Brando’s hostility towards Burt Reynolds, which was total and absolute, left the latter out of a successful film.
The beginning of the bad relationship between Hollywood stars goes back to an incident of
Beyond Imagination
Shown in 1963, in which Reynolds openly mocked the style, accent, and characteristic gestures of Brando in the role of a fictional character named Rocky Rhodes. A joke without malicious intent that Brando did not take well at all and that generated a lifelong resentment.
In fact, almost two decades after The Godfather, Coppola again considered Reynolds for one of the best films of his career,
Apocalypse Now
, but when Brando found out, he made it clear that he didn’t like the idea at all.
Some audio recordings from the filming were revealed, in which the legendary Oscar-winning actor clearly spoke badly of Reynolds, whom he described as “the embodiment of something that makes me want to throw up,” according to FarOut Magazine.
[Burt Reynolds is] the embodiment of everything repulsive in an actor. He adores the temple of his own narcissism.
Burt Reynolds, in turn, always made it clear that he greatly admired Marlon Brando as an actor and never entered into the provocation regarding the actor’s words. However, some of his imitations as a comedian seemed to contain clear messages.
Over time, Reynolds admitted to journalist Andy Cohen in an interview that Brando’s disdain for him had become taken as a compliment, since after all, he had managed to attract the attention of an actor much more renowned than himself.
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