Director Steven Spielberg recalls producers' initial concerns over one Jaws actor and how the casting almost led to a fistfight breaking out on set.
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT It took some time for Steven Spielberg to cast one legendary role in Jaws, and his eventual choice almost caused a fistfight on set. Jaws is all about a deadly shark making its way through the fictional New England beach town Amity Island and hunting everyday people along the way.
I did go for a big star initially because my first choice for Quint was Lee Marvin, but he wasn’t interested. What I heard was that he wanted to go fishing for real! He took his fishing very seriously and didn’t want to do it from a “movie” boat. My second choice was Sterling Hayden, whom I thought would make an amazing Quint. He had an Ahab quality about him—he had done a film entitled Terror in a Texas Town in 1958, where he played an imposing whaler who walked around with a harpoon.
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