"I didn't know there was going to be a commotion about it," he told Steve Harvey this past March while making the press rounds to promote "The Last Movie Star." The indie drama, currently streaming on Amazon Prime, ended up being his final role as a leading man, although Rifkin told TooFab that the actor was "in demand" in Hollywood again as a result of his fine performance. But people thought you had to do it because it, you know, caused a little fuss and all that and I enjoyed that, but I didn't enjoy doing it." "What an egomaniac that would do something like that," he told Katie Couric in 2017, and added, "I didn't have to do that. In 2016 he told Business Insider, "I think 'Deliverance' suffered because of it," but didn't elaborate on how. In previous interviews, Reynolds was never very specific when expressing regret for the nude photo shoot.
"He said he did the Cosmo thing because he thought it would be funny, and he said it just changed the course of everything for him and he regretted it," Rifkin continued while reflecting on his experience working with the movie legend, who passed away Thursday in a Florida hospital after suffering a heart attack at the age of 82.Īrnold Schwarzenegger, Kate Hudson Among Stars Honoring Burt Reynolds After His Death
Reynolds' single Oscar nomination would finally arrive in 1998 for his supporting role as a porn director in "Boogie Nights," a movie the actor said he hated and had no interest in ever watching. Reynolds played skilled bowman Lewis in the critically acclaimed adaptation of James Dickey's novel, but was left out of the three Oscar nominations it received, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Editor. The 1972 adventure thriller about a group of men on a Cahulawassee River rafting trip that turns into a nightmare when they encounter a couple of dangerous hillbilly moonshiners. Burt Reynolds 'Waited 7 Years' to Become 'The Last Movie Star' and It Paid Off Big Time
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