Richard Dreyfuss didn’t really want a part in “Jaws” at first.
He was convinced that his latest picture, “The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz,” would be a big success, and turned Spielberg down for the role of Matt Hooper.
Twice. Then he actually saw his performance in the film and felt it was so bad that it could potentially end his career.
“I thought that I had given the worst performance in the history of celluloid,” Dreyfuss told CBS News. So he chased down Spielberg and begged for the job on the killer shark movie, and not a moment too soon.
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