She accepts the nickname, and when queried as to whether she’ll be okay, she turns eagerly and smiles, “Yeah. And you’re kinda cute like a frog, and I’d like to jump ya.” And right when he reluctantly but upon her wishes takes her to the train station (in between which time she has switched out of her wedding dress in one of many iconic car scenes of the movie), he can’t help but ask, “Frog, you gonna be all right?” Frog being the nickname he’s given her because–in true sexist 70s fashion–“you’re always hoppin’ around. Justice (Jackie Gleason), there is an undercurrent of overt affection and amorousness. Even in their adversarial phase, after Carrie (Field) apprehends Bandit (Reynolds) in the middle of the road in a wedding gown while he’s on the run from “Smokey” a.k.a. Talent is sexy.'”Īnd his feelings on this subject are evident in every scene the two share together in Smokey and the Bandit. As he recalled, “I wanted her really bad for Smokey and they said, ‘Well she’s not sexy.’ And I said, ‘You don’t get it. But whatever her devil’s advocate motive, Reynolds was in a confessional enough mood to admit that it was “Sally,” after giving the caveat, “I’m dead in the water no matter what I say.” Getting a touch sentimental, he describes how he petitioned for her to be his co-star in Smokey and the Bandit, the film that would commence their five-year long relationship, over the course of which they made four movies together. Of course, this leads one to ask if the interviewer wasn’t slightly possessed by Charlotte York in her line of questioning.
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In what would be one of the last interviews ever given by a so healthy-appearing Burt Reynolds (that’s the thing about cardiac arrest though, it can take you by surprise in all your ostensible vigor) for promotion of his film, The Last Movie Star, for The Today Show, the subject of the great love of his life was broached.