![]() ![]() Finally, after two hours, Yates reached across the table to Nick and said, 'You're the man for me,' knocking Nick for a loop. But as they talked, Nick became intrigued with the changing character, and with the challenge of working underwater, and Yates became intrigued with Nick. Nick immediately sensed that Yates wasn't too thrilled with him for the character. It is invisible and this scares even more. ![]() ![]() It is swimming out of sight, planning to attack. Here was an actor that the studio didn't want, sitting down to discuss a part he'd already rejected, with a filmmaker who'd decided he wasn't right for the role anyway. Peter Benchley Horror 35663 2257 865 164 29 5 The guy is looking at the dark water with horror. Guber once said of the tense meeting with all the parties: "I walked into a conference that could not have started on shakier ground if we'd held it on the San Andreas fault. Nor were Columbia Pictures studio executives interested in Nolte, as they believed he wasn't a big enough star with enough box-office clout to headline an expensive blockbuster movie. Neither was Nolte particularly interested in doing in what he perceived as a bland lead part. ![]() Originally, Peter Yates didn't think Nick Nolte was right for the film. success in 1977 was not Close Encounters at all, it was The Deep, a more conventional package, presold by Peter Benchley's novel followup to Jaws. ![]()
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