09-09-2018, 07:50
My favourite story about Burt Reynolds is when he was filming Deliverance. The director decided to put a dummy in the boat to see how the flow of the water would affect the boat and to see what effect it might have on the actors once the scene was shot. While he was filming this Burt Reynolds decided that he would jump in a boat and go down the river for real and amid much protesting from the crew about safety and the danger of doing this unsupervised, he did just that. He thought the footage would be much more effective than using a dummy in a boat to observe the currents etc. He came very close to injuring himself and after he scrambled back onto the bank came up to the director and asked him what the footage was like and what did he see. The director said ' A dummy in a boat'.
'The purpose of life is a life of purpose' - Athena Orchard.