A Fitting Tribute to a Movie Legend in ‘Burt Reynolds: The Last Interview’ (Movie Review)
Burt Reynolds: The Last Interview
Rating: 9/10
Director and Writer: Rick Pamplin
Style: Documentary
Time: 103 minutes
Trailer: www.imdb.com/video/vi4087333913
Review by Mike Szymanski
The first time I was lucky enough to meet Burt Reynolds and interview him as an entertainment journalist, he sized me up and guessed my age and said, “You probably made out during ‘Smokey and the Bandit.’ “
I blushed and recalled my first girlfriend and the drive-in we were at the year before I graduated high school, and said, “How did you know?”
And he said, “Every journalist your age tells me that.”
That interview I did was during the publicity for “Boogie Nights” in 1997, exactly two decades after “Smokey and the Bandit.” Burt was as affable and nice and good-old-boy as the characters he portrayed, and exactly the way you would think he would be.
