Offered the Dad role in Billy Madison.

[savoy1984]

I love that film anyway but it would have been amazing if Charles had played the part.

[Seagal1967]

Billy Crystal once offered Bronson the Jack Palance role in "City Slickers".

Billy called Charlie and offered him the role which brought Palance an Oscar.

Bronson said on the phone: How can you dare to offer me a role of a character who dies?

Crystal wanted to say "but you also died in "The Magnificient Seven", but before he could say that Bronson hung up the phone.

Great story, it´s told by Crystal in his book.

[savoy1984]

Jun 17, 2015 12:50:42 GMT -5 Seagal1967 said:

Billy Crystal once offered Bronson the Jack Palance role in "City Slickers".

Billy called Charlie and offered him the role which brought Palance an Oscar.

Bronson said on the phone: How can you dare to offer me a role of a character who dies?

Crystal wanted to say "but you also died in "The Magnificient Seven", but before he could say that Bronson hung up the phone.

Great story, it´s told by Crystal in his book.

I think that might now be in my top ten favourite Hollywood stories and I've only just read it. It's also the sign of a interesting and cool person when the projects they didn't do are just as interesting as the ones they did. Thinking about it I think he was offered the role of Snake in Escape from New York also.

[Mean Little Ass-Kicker]

There's a thread on the forum discussing the Billy Crystal thing: charlesbronsoncom.proboards.com/thread/436/billy-crystal-anecdote-on-bronson

Where did you read about the dad role on Billy Madison?

[seagalfan]

It was all over the internet that Bronson was offered the role as Adam Sandler´s dad in "Billy Madison".