When I was kid in the ‘70s, my parents shipped me off to the Athens Y Camp in the hills of North Georgia. You probably heard some of these stories before, but allow me to elaborate. I have many personal connections to the film over the years. He got to kill one of the bad guys with a bow and arrow. And besides, he got to act macho for most of the pic.
The gritty story proved that he was a real actor.
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and the Dixie Dancekings” (1975) and the swan song “The Last Movie Star” (2017), in which he more or less played himself at the end of his career.Īh, but “Deliverance” (1972), was the best movie Reynolds ever made, period. The guy had a Southern accent, for starters, and everyone expected him to laugh his way through it anyhow.īut he did make such sleepers as the stuntman meta-comedy “Hooper” (1978), the drive-in classic “Gator” (1976), the downright strange “The End” (1978), the overlooked “W.W.
“An American can’t play James Bond,” Reynolds said at the time.Įh. The most famous thanks-but-no-thanks in Reynolds’ past was when he was offered the role of dashing English spy James Bond. “I was flattered he was upset,” Reynolds told the Hollywood Reporter before he died. Marlon Brando, who Reynolds once imitated in a TV show, threatened to quit if the younger actor was hired for “The Godfather” (1972).