I don’t like your movies!”Ĭ/D: You have reportedly said that filming 1983’s Stroker Ace was a turning point in your career. He got on the phone and told me: “That was the old president.
So, just to make sure there wasn’t some kind of an accident with shipping or something or maybe it got stolen, I made a call and it turned out Pontiac had a new president. A few years later, the new Trans Am didn’t show up, and I was wondering what happened.
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Did you get a free car?īR: Trans Am sales went up 70 percent after Smokey and the Bandit, and I was promised a free car every year for life by the Pontiac president. He is a scofflaw while I totally respect it since my dad was the chief of police when I was growing up.Ĭ/D: You sold a lot of Trans Ams.
But he helped me lighten up a little bit. People do think I’m the Bandit, and I’m a lot more serious than that. He gave us a thumbs up and said, “Yeah!” And we kind of knew there was some magic going on.Ĭ/D: Is it hard to play a character like Bo “Bandit” Darville who, many people assume, is like you?īR: Funny you should ask that, because I’m really much more like Phil Potter from Starting Over. About a third of the way into filming, I was in the car with Sally and there was this little moment where we kind of looked at each other, and then we both turned and looked over at Hal. But then we got Sally Field onboard and it changed the entire dynamic. ULLSTEIN BILD/GETTY IMAGES, MIKE WINDLE/GETTY IMAGES, MYCHAL WATTS/GETTY IMAGESĬ/D: Did Smokey and the Bandit feel like a hit while you were filming it?īR: It was a bit of a lark when I agreed to do it, and I knew we’d have fun if we could get Jackie Gleason. I had just directed Gator, and he saw my style and used that as a pattern. Smokey and the Bandit was the first picture he directed, and I knew he could handle it. He’d go off and do his gigs and I would do mine, and when we were lucky we got to work on the same ones. How did that work?īR: I had known Hal for a while by the time he moved in, so I was sure we’d get along well, and we did. My dad would sneak out at night and pull the spark-plug wires.Ĭ/D: Stuntman Hal Needham was your friend, roommate, and director. I had an Indian Scout motorcycle during high school, but I never could take it to school. I’m lucky it was as big and strong as it was, because that Buick is what saved my life. Later he got a Buick, and that’s what I was driving when I had a wreck. Our family really didn’t have a car we had my dad’s police cruiser. Burt Reynolds passed away on September 6, 2018.Ĭ/D: When you were growing up in Florida, how important were cars to kids back then? Did you have a car?īR: Actually it was a huge status symbol.
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