Jaws Secrets for the 50th Anniversary

8. As for Roy ScheiderHe won the role of police chief Martin Brody after meeting Spielberg at a party.

“I was sitting there and someone approached me and introduced myself to me and said to me:” You sit here all by yourself. Are you doing well? “”, Recalls Spielberg in Jaws: Inner history. “And it was Roy Scheider.”

Spielberg began to complain about Scheider – who at this stage had played in French connection– On how he could not find an actor to play chef Brody.

“I told him the whole story – I even told him the five or six actors to whom I spoke who decided that I did not want to go there,” continued the winner of the Oscars. “Roy looked at me and he said,” And me? I am an actor. I would love to be Jaws. ‘”

9. While Scheider obtained the role, Charlton Heston had also played for the role. However, Spielberg was concerned Heston – who had played in The ten commandments,, Ben-showAnd Agony and ecstasy– was too big from a star and that the public would not relate to him.

“I thought Charlton Heston would play this part would be a little just for the shark,” he added Jaws: Inner history“Because the shark would not last the first act.”

10. And you will need to thank Scheider for this emblematic line.

“One of the often cited lines of the film is Roy Scheider saying:” We must get a bigger boat “, which he improvised on the set,” said Gottlieb in 1995 Jaw manufacturing. “I recognize this as a writer. I am happy that he said that.”