Burt Reynolds (1936-2018)
Thursday, September 6, 2018 at 11:29PM by Nathaniel R
Burt Reynolds in his iconic breakout role in "Deliverance"Burt Reynolds passed away today of a heart attack. He was 82 years old. Though he lived a long blessed life, it's always a bummer to lose a bonafide movie star. It was particularly exciting recently to learn he'd been cast in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) since Quentin Tarantino has proven so skilled in the past at reviving talent whose heyday had passed and making us think about them differently or just think about them a lot again. Sadly, from our understanding he hadn't yet begun work so though the picture is currently filming they'll have to recast his supporting role. in the picture so it will need to be recast.
Did you have any feelings about him?
I personally had to grow into Burt Reynolds. When you're a little kid you accept that whoever is a star is a massive star, even if you don't know why, their origin story being firmly in the past. When I became interested in movies (the mid 80s) he was already "over" and then when I did start seeing him I didn't get it at all, at least not at first...