8. Roy ScheiderHe landed that part of Police Chief Martin Brody after meeting Spielberg on a party.
“I was sitting there and someone went away to me and introduced themselves to me and said,” You sit here alone. Are you ok? “” Spielberg remembers Jaws: The Inside Story. “And that was Roy Scheider.”
Spielberg began to complain to Scheider – which at this time had played in The French connection– If he couldn’t find an actor to play Chief Brody.
“I told him the whole story – I even said the five or six actors that I had talked to that I decided that I did not want to join,” the Oscar winner continued. “Roy looked at me and he said, ‘How about me? I’m an actor. I’d love to be in Jaws. “
9. While Scheider got the part, Charlton Heston Had also fought for the role. Spielberg, however, was concerned about Heston – who had played in The ten bidsThe Ben-howand Anxiety and oakstase– Be too big a star and that the audience would not relate to him.
“I thought for Charlton Heston to play that part would be a bit not fair to the shark,” he added Jaws: The Inside Story“Because the shark would not hold through the first act.”
10. And you will need to … to thank Scheider for this iconic line.
“One of the often quoted lines in the film is Roy Scheider, which says:” We have to get a bigger boat, “which he improvised on the set,” said Gottlieb 1995 Pakning of jaws. “I acknowledge it as a writer. I am happy that he said that.”
