Deliverance to play Lewis Medlock. Jack Nicholson was considered for the role of Ed, while both Donald Sutherland and Charlton Heston turned down the role of Lewis. Other actors who were attached to the project included Robert Redford, Henry Fonda, George C. Scott and Warren Beatty. The film is infamous for cutting costs by not insuring the production and having the actors perform their own stunts (most notably, Jon Voight climbed the cliff himself). In one scene, the stunt coordinator decided that a scene showing a canoe with a dummy of Burt Reynolds in it looked phony; he said it looked
Ned Beatty and voiced the main antagonist Lots-O'-Huggin' Bear in "Toy Story 3" (2010). In 2011, Beatty worked with actor Johnny Depp and director Gore Verbinski in the computer-animated film "Rango" (2011), again, playing the role of the antagonist. He appeared briefly in the film "Funny Guy" and in the film "Rampart" (2011), opposite Woody Harrelson, which is set in 1999 Los Angeles. Beatty also appeared at the sitcom television series "Go On" (2013), opposite Matthew Perry, portraying Coach Spence in episode 16. Beatty's next film was "The Big Ask" (2013), a dark comedy about three couples who head to the desert