\n2. FAYE DUNAWAY’S STAR-MAKING PERFORMANCE ALMOST DIDN’T HAPPEN.<\/span><\/strong>
\nWarren Beatty, doing double duty as star and producer, and director Arthur Penn considered\u00a0many other actresses first, including Tuesday Weld, Jane Fonda, Natalie Wood, Sharon Tate, Leslie Caron, and Ann-Margret. (Back when he was only producing it and not starring in it, Beatty had also considered his sister, Shirley MacLaine, for the role.) Beatty said they were turned down “by about 10 women,” though he would later say Weld was the only one they made a firm offer to. When Beatty met Dunaway, he didn’t think she was right for the part, but he told her to meet with Penn, who he thought would think she was perfect. Beatty was right.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n7. THE STUDIO’S LACK OF FAITH MADE WARREN BEATTY VERY, VERY RICH.<\/span><\/strong>
\nThinking the film wouldn’t make any money, Warner Bros. offered Beatty a ridiculous deal: a $200,000 salary, plus 40 percent of the gross. Yes, 40<\/em> percent. Of the gross<\/i>, not the net. The film made more than $50 million.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n5. WHATEVER YOU THINK THE FILM \u201cREALLY\u201d MEANS, YOU’RE PROBABLY WRONG.<\/span><\/strong>
\nSome viewers interpreted Bonnie and Clyde<\/em> as a commentary on other issues, but Newman and Benton said they didn’t intend it that way. As they wrote in an introduction to a published version of their screenplay, “[People] have told us that Bonnie and Clyde<\/em> was REALLY about Vietnam, REALLY about police brutality, REALLY about Lee Harvey Oswald, REALLY about Watts. After a while, we took to shrugging and saying, ‘If you think so.'”<\/p>\n\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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