The contentious 1997 Burt Reynolds role Bill Murray turned down

The contentious 1997 Burt Reynolds role Bill Murray turned down

Having spent his peak years turning down roles that other actors would steer to massive success, it must have been a strange feeling for Burt Reynolds to have the shoe on the other foot for a change. Safe in the knowledge that he was the biggest movie star in the business, a title he held for five consecutive years, Reynolds experienced what every other A-lister experiences when he started being inundated with offers for high-profile, big-name, …