Burt Reynolds was once one of Hollywood’s movie box-office kings — but he spent his sad final days broke and trying to recover from crippling from movie stunt injuries. But the “Smokey and the Bandit” star also suffered from a broken heart over how he was treated by both young Hollywood upstarts and his own aging contemporaries! The famously volatile actor — who was always up for a feud — didn’t hold back on speaking out at the end of his career. That included his take on how millennials have turned their back on classic Hollywood. “There’s a bunch of actors now that really don’t give a s**t about old films and old actors … of which I am one,” he told The National ENQUIRER.
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Burt recalled dining with his "City Heat" co-star
Clint Eastwood and getting the cold shoulder by a bunch of New York directors at another table. “We stopped at the table on our way out and said hello,” he recalls. “I saw their faces drop. I kept walking — but it was one of the most obvious put-downs I’ve ever experienced.”
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Burt walked with a cane due to
agonizing back injuries from stunts. He also lost a fortune with bad investments, and was forced to auction off most of his Hollywood mementos to pay his mortgage and a divorce settlement to ex
Loni Anderson. That left him constantly working in smaller films.
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He co-starred with "Modern Family" beauty
Ariel Winter in the new comedy "Dog Years." And Burt admitted he had to give the curvaceous star a mini-lecture when she first came on the set — about her filthy language.
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“She said the f–word 38 times in her opening sentence,” Burt recalls. “After about the fifth round I stopped and took her behind the flat and said, ‘You’ve got to earn that kind of stuff!’”
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Burt recalled dining with his "City Heat" co-star
Clint Eastwood and getting the cold shoulder by a bunch of New York directors at another table. “We stopped at the table on our way out and said hello,” he recalls. “I saw their faces drop. I kept walking — but it was one of the most obvious put-downs I’ve ever experienced.”
Photo credit: Getty Images
Burt walked with a cane due to
agonizing back injuries from stunts. He also lost a fortune with bad investments, and was forced to auction off most of his Hollywood mementos to pay his mortgage and a divorce settlement to ex
Loni Anderson. That left him constantly working in smaller films.
Photo credit: Getty Images
He co-starred with "Modern Family" beauty
Ariel Winter in the new comedy "Dog Years." And Burt admitted he had to give the curvaceous star a mini-lecture when she first came on the set — about her filthy language.
“She said the f–word 38 times in her opening sentence,” Burt recalls. “After about the fifth round I stopped and took her behind the flat and said, ‘You’ve got to earn that kind of stuff!’”
