“That nature of it wasn’t just, ‘Oh, this is a love affair.’ There was some ingredient between us having to do with my care-taking and him needing to be taken care of. Jerry Reed, whose roles in three Smokey and the Bandit Southern comedy films opposite Burt Reynolds often overshadowed his gifts as a prolific country singer-songwriter. We were sort of, you know, deeply entangled,” she told Diane Sawyer.
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It was instantaneous, and four days felt like four years,” Sally, 73, said in a Good Morning America interview. The first film from stuntman-turned-director Hal Needham, it was a car chase comedy starring Burt. “We had known each other about three days, four days at that point. On May 27, 1977, 'Smokey and the Bandit' premiered in theaters.The rest, as they say, is history. She said she was initially drawn to Burt’s swagger and charisma and described their connection as immediate and intense. At least it's certainly one of his most memorable.
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Smokey and the Bandit may be Burt Reynolds' best movie.
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Justice, the movie has some fantastic and real car chases and stunts. Aside from the love story and Gleason's portrayal of Bufford T. “Blindly I fell into a rut that had long ago formed in my road, a pre-programmed behavior as if in some past I had pledged a soul-binding commitment to this man.”Īlthough Sally said her relationship with Burt was “really complicated and hurtful” to her, she acknowledged that it was also “not without loving and caring.” It's simple fun, but there is a little bit of magic in this 1977 movie. We were a perfect match of flaws,” she wrote.
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“By the time we met, the weight of his stardom had become a way for Burt to control everyone around him, and from the moment I walked through the door, it was a way to control me.