The Real Feelings of Sally Field and Other Women Towards Burt Reynolds

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Then I went to Marlon Brando, and he said he’d do it for whatever Jack [Nicholson] was asking for,” Boorman continued. The studio gave me the go light to film [Deliverance] with no-name actors and zero budget. Few of them believed the content. What is the end result? The picture Deliverance was nominated for three Academy Awards and ended up being the fifth most grossing movie of 1972. Many women became fans of Reynolds as a result.

What Dolly Says

Dolly Parton paid one of the most touching tributes to Reynolds. The country music legend tweeted a photo from a film they had worked on after hearing the news. There was a caption with the photo that read, “Oh how sorry I am today along with Burt’s millions of admirers across the world as we grieve one of our favourite leading men.”