Burt Reynolds was famous for doing his own stunts, but he told us about one he wished he'd never attempted

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• Legendary actor Burt Reynolds died on Thursday at the age of 82.
• Known for being an actor who did his own stunts (in a time when leading men rarely did), in 2016 he told Business Insider the stunt in his career he regretted doing the most.

Before the likes of Tom Cruise and Keanu Reeves dazzled audiences by doing their own stunts in movies, Burt Reynolds was one of the few A-list American actors tough enough to pull it off.

For most of the 1970s, Reynolds — who died on Thursday at the age of 82 — wasn't just the biggest movie star on the planet, he was making box-office coin doing everything in movies from driving fast cars ("Smokey and the Bandit") to diving into the end zone ("The Longest Yard"). But ironically the movie that showed Hollywood he could actually give a great acting performance was the one in which he did the stunt he regretted the most.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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