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 stage actor, including a run in the London production of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" with Brendan Fraser and Frances O'Connor, which won a Drama Desk Award. In the middle of the 2000s, Beatty appeared in the television film "The Wool Cap" (2004), with William H. Macy, and in 2005, an American independent film directed and written by Ali Selim, "Sweet Land". In March 2006, Beatty received the RiverRun International Film Festival's "Master of Cinema" Award (the highest honor of the festival), in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. By the end of the 2000s, Beatty portrayed a corrupt U.S. Senator in