In the period between shooting "Duddy Kravitz" and actually seeing the completed movie, Richard Dreyfuss was offered, and turned down, the role of Matt Hooper in "Jaws"; having read the script he decided that it was a film he would "rather watch than be in". After he had seen the final cut of "Kravitz", however, Dreyfuss felt his performance was so bad that it could potentially end his movie career. Discovering that the role of Hooper had still not been cast, he jumped at it to ensure that he was safely under contract to make another movie before anybody at Universal Pictures heard any negative press about "Kravitz".