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The Shark Is Broken<\/em> is a play running on Broadway right now. It\u2019s a fictional account of what the three main stars of Jaws<\/em> (1975) got up to between takes during filming. Those three main stars are Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, and Robert Shaw, whose son Ian Shaw co-wrote the show and plays the character of his father. Well, Richard Dreyfuss went to see the play, posed and smiled for pictures with the cast afterwards, and is now bemoaning how awful it is. He just doesn\u2019t understand why they chose to make his character a \u201cfool\u201d and a \u201cjerk.\u201d Plus he has a totally solid explanation for why it may have appeared that he and Robert Shaw were feuding on the original film set:<\/p>\n

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Dreyfuss, who played marine biologist Matt Hooper in the 1975 thriller, said in a Thursday story by Vanity Fair that he attended the comedy-drama \u201cto see if it really was gonna hurt\u201d \u2014 before confirming just that.<\/p>\n

The Oscar winner complained that \u201cThe Shark Is Broken\u201d portrayed a feud between himself and fellow actor Robert Shaw, who played shark hunter Quint in the film. Dreyfuss said their real-life friendship never hit rough waters, adding that they\u2019d just make lighthearted jabs at one another \u201cto make the hours go better, faster.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you only saw us on the set, then you might think that there was something \u2014 a feud that was going on \u2014 but it was never real,\u201d said Dreyfuss, suggesting that Spielberg and co-screenwriter Carl Gottlieb had spread rumors of a conflict.<\/p>\n

Dreyfuss was also not happy that the play showed him as a \u201cfool.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey didn\u2019t do that to Roy, and they didn\u2019t do that to Robert. And that hurt because it wasn\u2019t true,\u201d Dreyfuss said, referring to Roy Scheider, another \u201cJaws\u201d star.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was pretty awful,\u201d Dreyfuss said about seeing the play, adding that he had not been contacted for his perspective during the writing of \u201cThe Shark Is Broken.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey just decided to make my character a big jerk,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

[From HuffPost]<\/p>\n

Ah, so it only looked like a feud if you were\u2026 watching and listening to them. This is like the Emperor\u2019s New Clothes of explanations. I\u2019m embarrassed to say that I don\u2019t know more about Robert Shaw\u2019s work, but I\u2019ve been a lifelong lover of Roy Scheider ever since I first saw him in All That Jazz<\/em> (probably when I was too young to see that film). So Dick, you know why they didn\u2019t make Roy look like a jerk? Because he wasn\u2019t one!!! Turns out, it IS possible to be a really really good actor, without also being a schmuck. Richard Dreyfuss is just a sad, sorry case study, because he was a great actor. But his resume over the last 15 years has included suing his father for a loan made in the 80s, being credibly accused of sexual misconduct on a set in 1984, and lamenting that he no longer has the option to perform in blackface. If you don\u2019t see what\u2019s jerky about that, Richard, then you\u2019re gonna need a bigger mirror.<\/p>\n

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Photos credit: Jeffrey Mayer \/ Avalon and Getty<\/small><\/p>\n

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