In Reply to: The role was originally intended for Richard Harris, but the studio.... posted by TWB on May 13, 2021 at 10:27:04:
I am so darn glad he turned it down.
I think Ryan was such a success, that Kubrick later decided to try that trick again - to take a lousy actor and make him shine in his hands. But EWS killed that "universal success recipe" idea. It simply gave us dreck actors, dreck directing and dreck movie.
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