However, ever since reading his first novel, "A Good Man in Africa", I have been, and avowedly remain, a huge fan of William Boyd, whom I consider incapable of writing an inelegant sentence. Other reported turn-downs include “Rosemary’s Baby,” the Batman TV series, “M*A*S*H,” “Taxi Driver,” and “Rocky,” according to an interview with Reynolds by the Sydney Morning Herald.Show More them I tried to re-read a couple of them just a few years back and found them very hard going, almost to the point of being utterly impenetrable.
“It just wasn’t my kind of film,” he told Conan, adding that the pornographic subject matter made him “very uncomfortable.” Despite earning him critical acclaim and his first and only Oscar nomination, he never did watch it. Still, there’s one near-miss that made it big, but almost didn’t - Reynolds admitted to turning down his role as Jack Horner in “Boogie Nights” seven times before finally coming to his senses and accepting the part, as told to Conan O’Brien in an interview earlier this year. “You can’t relive that moment when you should have said, ‘I’ll take it, I’ll do it.'” To add insult to injury, Nicholson went on to win yet another Oscar for “Terms of Endearment.” “You can’t go back,” he told the Sydney Morning Herald.
Though Reynolds told Cohen that he doesn’t remember turning down either role, it still stands as an often-repeated Hollywood rumor. And you can’t out smoke him either,” Reynolds told Cohen.īruce Willis’ Role in “ Die Hard” and Jack Nicholson’s Role in “Terms of Endearment” Though he “desperately wanted to play it,” for some reason he still turned down this role for which Nicholson went on to win an Oscar. Jack Nicholson’s Role in “ One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” I wish I would have done it.”ĭespite telling the Sydney Morning Herald in 2016, “If there was a pretty leading lady I would do it no matter how bad the part was,” Reynolds turned down Richard Gere’s role in “Pretty Woman.” Why? “Because I’m an idiot,” he told Cohen on “Watch What Happens Live.”
“I just didn’t want to play that kind of role at the time,” he told Business Insider in 2016 of the role that eventually went to Harrison Ford. “I was flattered that he was upset,” he said. Reynolds also turned down the role of Michael Corleone in “The Godfather,” but this is one he didn’t regret. In an interview with Andy Cohen on “Watch What Happens Live,” he acknowledged the rumor that Marlon Brando threatened to quit if Reynolds came on board.
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