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<\/h5>\n<\/h5>\nJennifer M. Woods and Mental Floss<\/a> present 11 Surprising Facts About In the Line of Fire<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 Here are three of my favorites…<\/p>\n 3. AT ONE POINT, ROBERT REDFORD WAS ATTACHED TO STAR.<\/strong> 6. FRANK HORRIGAN WAS INSPIRED BY ONE OF JFK\u2019S SECRET SERVICE AGENTS.<\/strong> \u201cI still feel today a sense of failure and responsibility because that was our job: to keep the president safe, to protect him at all costs,\u201d Hill said. \u201cAnd on that particular day, we were unable to do that.\u201d Much of Horrigan\u2019s desire to right that wrong came from Hill\u2019s interview.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n 8. WOLFGANG PETERSEN WAS A LITTLE INTIMIDATED BY CLINT EASTWOOD.<\/strong> “I must admit, I was initially a bit intimidated at the prospect of directing Clint, but any fears I had disappeared after our first meeting, and once we started shooting he never challenged my direction,” Petersen told the Los Angeles Times. \u201cAt the beginning he told me, ‘I won’t interfere, but if you want my advice I’ll be there for you\u2014otherwise I’ll leave you alone.’ I took up his offer and consulted him a lot.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jennifer M. Woods and Mental Floss present 11 Surprising Facts About In the Line of Fire.\u00a0 Here are three of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20655,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20654\/revisions\/20655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nThough Clint Eastwood will forever be associated with the role of ultra-dedicated Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan, he was hardly the first choice for the role. As the script made its way around Hollywood over the years, a number of other actors were either attached to or offered the project, including Robert Redford. Dustin Hoffman, Sean Connery, James Caan, Tommy Lee Jones, and Val Kilmer were among the other names wanted for the role of Horrigan.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
\nThough the movie is a work of fiction, main character Frank Horrigan was partly inspired by Clint Hill, one of John F. Kennedy\u2019s Secret Service agents who was on duty the day the 35th president was assassinated in Dallas. In 1975, Hill sat down for an emotional interview with Mike Wallace on 60 Minutes, where he broke down and admitted that he felt responsible for what had happened that terrible day.<\/p>\n\n
\nThough he was already a highly acclaimed director with two Oscar nominations on his resume (for writing and directing 1981\u2019s Das Boot), Petersen admitted that the idea of directing a Hollywood icon like Eastwood was a slightly terrifying prospect.<\/p>\n