Richard Dreyfuss: Sounds like a jerk
June 24, 2020 12:44 PM   Subscribe

Richard Dreyfuss discloses he was a “bad guy” in a rambling Guardian interview The 72-year-old star of Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up to Cancer talks about face mask etiquette instead. It is the start of a rollercoaster ride which soars and dips through Steven Spielberg, manic depression, the British press, the car crash that changed Dreyfuss’s life and, most jaw-dropping of all, a critique of the #MeToo movement that alludes to the Holocaust and women’s “enormously more powerful sexual drive”.
posted by stillmoving (6 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: Hey, so, the premise here really feels like "listen to him be a jerk" but there's no shortage of jerks like this and the presentation here doesn't feel exceptionally insightful or worthwhile? -- LobsterMitten



 
Mr. Holland's Oops
posted by Chrysostom at 12:51 PM on June 24, 2020 [5 favorites]


There's a special place in my ass for men who explain away their bad behavior towards women by talking about what powerful, sexual beings women really are.

Quoting Niemoeller over #MeToo? If only I had a "jerking off motion" react.
posted by Countess Elena at 12:53 PM on June 24, 2020 [4 favorites]


Some folks just can't not open their mouths and shoot themselves in the foot huh.
posted by Homo neanderthalensis at 12:54 PM on June 24, 2020


I remember Stephen Fry did a series about manic depression several years ago where he interviewed Dreyfuss. I can't watch one of his performances now without that in the back of my mind. Doesn't excuse anything but it was eye-opening.
posted by downtohisturtles at 12:58 PM on June 24, 2020


Mr Holland's Opus is right up there with American Beauty for "middle-aged man grooms then heroically resists taking advantage of a high school girl, aren't you impressed with this gallantry?" I wish I was more surprised.
posted by Flannery Culp at 1:18 PM on June 24, 2020 [2 favorites]


We're gonna need a bigger boat (for all these creeps to sail off into the sunset on)
posted by nubs at 1:21 PM on June 24, 2020 [2 favorites]


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