The English actor was acclaimed for his career in Shakespearean classics and his turn in “Jaws” as Quint, the maniacal shark hunter. Now, some four decades later, Shaw is stepping into the shoes of his late father, quite literally, in “The Shark Is Broken,” his play co-written with Joseph Nixon. The chaotic film set was the site of unfathomable cost overruns, malfunctioning shark replicas and near catastrophic delays. When he read the journal in 2017, Shaw was around the same age as his father when he was filming the blockbuster shark movie. “We’re very nostalgic about certain things and there’s a whole group of people who are very nostalgic about that particular film,” said Shaw.

Source: thestar September 22, 2022 06:04 UTC