![]() ![]() Reynolds’s Cosmo centerfold was a watershed moment. The guy’s shooting away and after a while it begins to seem like fun. There I am, freezing my bottom off on a bear skin rug, and they give me a bottle of booze and a Saint Bernard dog. ![]() It’s a very cold day and its freezing in his studio, so if they want pictures of my thing, it’s a bad day. ![]() I have a strange sense of humor,” he told Ebert.Īlso, I’m thinking, I don’t have any good publicity stills, so what can I lose? If something comes out good, I can always crop it, right? So the day comes, and I go over to this famous Italian photographer’s studio. ![]() “You want to know why I really posed for Cosmopolitan? I thought it would be a kick. Reynolds, who died September 6 at the age of 82, was at the time starring in the play The Rainmaker at a Chicago theater and his performance in the soon-to-be released movie Deliverance was already being described as “sensational.” His star was rising, but what Ebert really wanted to talk about, it seemed, was Reynolds’s centerfold in Cosmopolitan, in which he appeared naked, casually stretched out on a bear skin rug, with a cigarillo dangling from his mouth and an arm strategically placed across his body to hide anything that might alarm would-be censors. ![]()
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