The actor says watching Broadways “The Shark Is Broken” was “pretty awful.
Richard Dreyfussinsists that his friendship with lateJawscostarRobert Shawnever waded into choppy waters.
“And it did.”
Robert Shaw, Roy Scheider, and Richard Dreyfuss in ‘Jaws’.Everett Collection
Of his experience watching the play, Dreyfuss said, “It was pretty awful.
Or, ‘Give me your take on this and this.’
And they just decided to make my character a big jerk…
Colin Donnell, Alex Brightman, Richard Dreyfuss, and Ian Shaw backstage at ‘The Shark Is Broken’.Bruce Glikas/WireImage
The problem is that they made my character the fool.
They didn’t do that to Roy [Scheider], and they didn’t do that to Robert.
And that hurt because it wasn’t true.”
“That was the only day I lost my sense of humor,” Dreyfuss said.
“That was not a feud… We never had any bad feeling between us, ever.”
“I have to say that Carl and Steven knew better, knew that there was no feud.
There was an ongoing kind of humor between us.
And I hold that against Carl and Steven.”
“I have enormous respect for Steven’s talent as a director,” Dreyfuss added.
“I guess I don’t have as much for his talent as a friend.”
Representatives for Spielberg and Gottlieb did not immediately respond to EW’s request for comment.
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