Burt Reynolds random trivia

During the mid-eighties, Burt Reynolds tried to make a comeback with Heat (1985), written by William Goldman. He hoped the movie (directed by Robert Altman) would mark a new phase in his career. Unfortunately, Altman had an intercaltion with producer Eliot Kastner and he left the project. The movie ended up being a box office failure. He had a long love affair with Dinah Shore Refused the role that earned Jack Nicholson an Oscar in Terms of Endearment (1983). To this day, Reynolds comments that this was one of his most terrible mistakes. He has also refused the part of James Bond, during the seventies, and he also refused the role Kevin Kline played in Soapdish (1991), with Sally Field, because his then wife, Loni Anderson, told him that the whole Hollywood would laugh at her (Reynolds and Field once had a very publicized love affair).