During filming, Richard Dreyfuss once shocked and somewhat horrified the crew when he grabbed Robert Shaw’s drink and tossed it into the ocean.
Shaw, clearly upset, didn’t let it go and allegedly made Dreyfuss’s life difficult for the rest of the shoot. He taunted him relentlessly, offering him $1,000 to climb the 70-foot mast of the boat and jump into the ocean, calling him a coward each time he refused. Things escalated when Shaw sprayed Dreyfuss with a fire hose, causing the younger actor to storm off, declaring, ”That’s it. I don’t want to work with you anymore. Go fuck yourself.”
Tragic ending of Robert Shaw
The English-born actor died from a heart attack at the age of 51 in Ireland. Shaw suddenly fell ill while driving, pulled over, stepped out of the car, and collapsed on the roadside.
Roy Scheider, Shaw’s co-star in Jaws, passed away in 2011 after bravely battling cancer for nearly two years.
The Alex Kintner Sandwich
Decades after Jaws was released, Lee Fierro, who played Mrs. Kintner, walked into a seafood restaurant and noticed a menu item called the ”Alex Kintner Sandwich.” This, of course, caught her attention. She remarked to the staff that she had once played the mother of Alex Kintner in the movie (Alex was young boy who tragically became one of the shark’s victims.)
To her surprise, Jeffrey Voorhees, the actor who portrayed her son Alex in the film, came running out from the back of the restaurant.
The two hadn’t seen each other since they filmed that iconic scene. It was a heartwarming reunion – it had been years since they’d worked together, and there they were, brought together by a quirky menu item.
The deleted scene in Jaws
In Jaws, the death of young Alex Kintner is one of the film’s most shocking andContinue reading…
