Reynolds nevertheless regretted “one of the biggest mistakes I’ve ever made,” and believed to the end that the centerfold cost him an Oscar nomination for his performance in Deliverance. Reynolds was not only helping to propel us into a new era in women’s magazine publishing but also a refreshed understanding of what women desire.” In the New York Times, Guy Trebay argues that, when he struck that pose sprawled out on a bear rug, “he affected true cultural change. One night, Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown was sitting in for Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show, when she invited Reynolds to become the first male nude centerfold in her magazine. It proved I could act, not only to the public but me.”Īt about the time Deliverance hit theaters, Reynolds was gaining notoriety as an affable, undeniably sexy, yet also self-deprecating guest on television talk shows.
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“I don’t know if it’s the best acting I’ve done, but it’s the best movie I’ve ever been in. “If I had to put only one of my movies in a time capsule, it would be Deliverance,” Reynolds wrote in his 2015 memoir, But Enough About Me. In 1972, he starred alongside Jon Voight, Ned Beatty, and Ronny Cox in John Boorman’s Deliverance, an adaptation of James Dickey’s novel about four “city boys” from Atlanta who venture into the wilderness of northern Georgia, where the locals are less than welcoming. It’s a kind of intimacy with fans that doesn’t happen all that often.”īorn in Michigan but raised in Florida, Reynolds relocated to New York to study acting and then to Los Angeles to take roles in dozens of television shows and forgettable movies before he landed his breakthrough role. in a way that let us know that we were in on the joke. In her remembrance, Sheila O’Malley argues that “there was nothing like Reynolds’s rakish grin, his roguish sense of humor, his pure sex-power charisma-not vain, but so confident he didn’t have to play it up or remind us of it. On Thursday, he passed away in Florida at the age of eighty-two.
Few movie stars seemed to have had such an absolute blast on-screen while privately dealing with physical and emotional pain the way Burt Reynolds did over the course of a career that spanned six decades.
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