Ned Beatty, Who Made Quite the First Impression in ‘Deliverance,’ Dies at 83 (Report)
, Jon Voight and Ronnie Cox as buddies from Atlanta who take a trip to hillbilly country to canoe down a river.
Beatty said he doubted he was going to get a part in the picture when he sat down with Boorman, his assistant and their wives for lunch in New York. A veteran of the local theater, he had never been in a feature film.“There was a very attractive lady [the wife of Boorman’s assistant] sitting next to me to my left,” he recalled in a 1992 interview with the CBC, “and I spent the whole time giving her my best shot … I was terribly married [but still] terribly flirtatious.
“I was quite the heel, and I think that’s what John Boorman liked. He said he thought I was the rudest person he had ever met.”, of course, has become infamous for its uncut 10-minute male rape sequence in which Beatty, as pudgy businessman Bobby Trippe, is the victim. It’s a scene that viewers have difficulty stomaching.called upon Beatty to write an article about rape for the newspaper’s op-ed section.
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