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‘We deeply regret the distress’: cinema apologises for Richard Dreyfuss comments at Jaws screening
The actor took to the stage in a dress backed by Taylor Swift’s Love Story, then reportedly made a number of sexist and transphobic comments
A cinema in Massachusetts has apologised to the audience at a special screening of Jaws and a Q&A with its star, Richard Dreyfuss, who reportedly made a number of sexist and transphobic comments. Appearing at the Cabot theatre in Beverly, Massachusetts on 25 May, Dreyfuss to a background track of Taylor Swift’s Love Story, shaking his hips suggestively and brandishing his walking stick like a baseball bat. Dreyfuss was the then-youngest-ever performer to win the leading actor Oscar in 1978 for his role in The Goodbye Girl, and was nominated in the same category for 1995’s Mr Holland’s Opus.
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