We saw some fists flying from Burt Reynolds. The film’s first AD, John Wildermuth, tells this story: “Burt got so frustrated he pulled Paul outside into the backyard and started yelling at him, like a father, you know? ‘You f-kin’ little punk kid, don’t tell me what to do.’” Actor Tom Lenk added, “All of a sudden we saw fists flying. One day on set Reynolds felt Anderson was disrespecting him. But there was an incident when the two almost got into a physical fight. REYNOLDS AND ANDERSON NEARLY CAME TO PHYSICAL BLOWS.Įverybody on the set knew Reynolds had a temper, and everybody knew the director and Reynolds didn’t quite get along. “I thought I did a good job, I certainly worked hard on that film, but I was never crazy about it.” 3.
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In addition to not being a fan of Anderson, Reynolds didn’t like the movie either. “I just didn’t like the subject matter,” he told 11th Hour. ” He also told The Guardian that he turned down acting in Anderson’s follow-up, Magnolia, because “I’d done my picture with Paul Thomas Anderson, that was enough for me.”
Every shot we did, it was like the first time.
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“I think mostly because he was young and full of himself. Reynolds, who played porn filmmaker Jack Horner, recently told GQ why their personalities clashed.
It’s no secret the pair didn’t get along on set. BURT REYNOLDS DISLIKED PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON AND THE MOVIE. I got 35 pages into it, I put it down, I said, ‘I’ve got to meet the director.’ I said, ‘This guy either finally wants me to take the Calvin Kleins off, or he wants to make a really serious movie.’” 2. And you know, coming from the underwear background, the music stuff, I was like, ‘Ehh, I don’t want to do this.’ But there was just so much hype around the script. In Grantland’s oral history, Wahlberg explained why he didn’t want to read the script. WAHLBERG INITIALLY DIDN’T WANT TO BE IN THE MOVIE, BECAUSE OF SHOWGIRLS.Īt this stage in Mark Wahlberg’s career, he had a hit song under the name Marky Mark, had done The Basketball Diaries-which is how Anderson discovered him-and was basically an underwear model. Here are some protruding facts about the epic dramedy. The movie was loosely based on the life of legendary porn star John Holmes, and a short film Anderson made when he was still a teenager, 1988's The Dirk Diggler Story, about a well-endowed porn star. It received three Oscar nominations, including one for Reynolds (his first), and was a modest hit at the box office. The 155-minute feature was writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson’s sophomore feature, and also his breakout film.
Reilly, and Philip Seymour Hoffman as a group of 1970s Los Angeles Valley-based adult film actors. Released on October 10, 1997, Boogie Nights starred Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds, John C.
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