The 10 most problematic movie characters of the 1970s
There’s nothing redeeming about them.
Charles Bronson
“I was not very good”: the 1973 audition that launched Jeff Goldblum’s career
He had to play a creep.
“He was always putting him down”: The Hollywood legend Elvis Presley couldn’t stand
The musical icon was no fan of his scene partner.
The American war hero who became an iconic Hollywood tough guy: “Jeez, this is great!”
A solider and a showman
The scathing review that made Charles Bronson threaten a critic: “I’ll get that man”
Was absolutely furious about a seemingly innocuous opinion
The day Kurt Russell went skateboarding with Charles Bronson: “I really liked Charlie”
What a crazy mental image this is.
The violent crime thriller Roger Ebert hated with a passion: “A scummy little sewer of a movie”
A pattern was emerging.
The sequel Roger Ebert refused to give a star rating: “Artistically inept and morally repugnant”
He wasn’t a fan, which is putting it lightly.
The first actors who fascinated Nicolas Cage: “That’s certainly what I was aspiring to”
Who fascinates the fascinating?
The controversially iconic role Clint Eastwood rejected: “This business isn’t about doing the thing that makes sense”
He didn’t see himself in the character.
The two actors Quentin Tarantino calls “a different breed”
Stars of a different calibre from a different era.