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Burt Reynolds hailed from Waycross, Georgia

Charming, handsome and easy-going, lead actor and former mega-star Burt Reynolds originally hailed from Waycross, Georgia, where he was born on February 11, 1936.

In 1968, Burt Reynolds tested for a role in the horror film ROSEMARY'S BABY (1968), but Roman Polanski ended up casting John Cassavetes for the part.

Burt Reynolds despised BOOGIE NIGHTS (1997) so much, he fired his agent immediately after viewing a screening of the film. This was before the critical raves after the New York Film Festival occured. He was then convinced by Paul Thomas Anderson to promote the film on a radio tour, and was further enraged at Anderson's behavior - constantly not letting Reynolds speak. Reynolds pointedly refused to participate in Anderson's next project, MAGNOLIA (1999).

He 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).

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