As Bert Reynolds really felt his star Gunsmoke James Arness

The late Bert Reynolds was a connoisseur of solid opinions. The man was known for talking about his opinion, and what he had in his head was often unpredictable, entertaining, abusive or other. Was, for example, at this time he complained to the work of that time and before the departure of Paul Thomas Anderson During the shooting of “Boogie Night”, allegedly fired his agent, because he hated the movie so much and only (slightly) changed the tune as soon as he earned the nomination for “Oscar” for his role. His opinion was just as colorful when it came to Greta Harbo (On the sun: She had “beautiful breasts”), Ingmar Bergman (To Esquire: “I would better shoot my leg than to look at the picture of Ingmar Bergman”) and countless celebrities with which he has gone through his career.

Being in mind his reputation on the air, you will be forgotten that as a result, Reynolds and his compatriots at the exhibition, which for the first time made him a famous “Gunsmoke”. Surprisingly, however, the actor had nothing but good to say about James Arnes, a man who played a marshal goal for 20 seasons on the classic Western seasons. Reynolds, who played three seasons at the Blacksmith quinta asperOn Metv) in which he gladly reminded of his time working together.

According to Reynolds, Arnes was strange, exceeding his experience with Richard Prio, when it came to an unexpected laughter. “The biggest surprise for anyone who was fortunate to work on a few episodes” Gunsmoke “in those days was Jim Arnes,” Rynolds wrote. “He was ridiculous. I mean to get out because of the fact that” is “-” “-and-it’s funny.” The Smoky and Bandit actor noted that Arnes had reduced the obsession that was opposed by his light trends. “Your first thought has always been:” Damn, he thought it would be, “he said.

According to Reynolds, Arnes, who died in 2011, “had such a wonderful ability to surprise you by making you laugh at yourself or the situation in which the actors often found themselves.” Su-star “Gunsmoke” also wrote that Arnes is also without an ego that the actor who Once said Marlon Brand “It will be put in the temple of its own narcissism,” what the thing would know about it. “He never imposed his position,” despite the fact that he was number one on the call, said Reynolds. “More than once I and anyone else did not see Jim to be rude, powerful, self-or-selfish for anyone, whether it is crew members, supplements, day players or co-stars.”

Public opinions about Arnes changed over the years with Leonard calls him a friendJohn Wayne falling out with itand the “Gunsmoke” fellow Actor Milburn Stone Taking some time to warm up to it. However, there was no one in the eyes of Reynolds. “I have made more than 200 TV shows and more than 75 functions, and I cannot come up with a single actor whose behavior on the set and excluded was more unpretentious than Jim,” he wrote in Autobiography. “It will be ashamed of Jim, hearing how I say he was, and so loved and revered by all of us,” the Reynolds concluded, “but you must face it, an old friend. Whatever or not, you and (“Gunsmoke”) is something that really is a word icon. “