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Ron Howard Reflects on Wilford Brimley’s ‘Cocoon’ Fishing

Following the passing on Saturday night of Wilford Brimley, director Ron Howard seemed again on his work with the actor on the 1985 movie “Cocoon,” significantly in one of many movie’s most heartbreaking and sincere scenes.

In the scene, Ben Luckett, performed by Brimley, is out fishing together with his grandson at his favourite spot by the freeway in St. Petersburg, Florida. Ben, together with different members of his retirement house, has been given a proposal by the Antareans to return to their house planet the place they are going to be immortal. While fishing, Ben does his finest to interrupt the bittersweet information to his grandson that he might be saying goodbye ceaselessly.

“We didn’t always see eye-to-eye but I owe this ‘Cocoon’ scene to Wilfred who asked me to throw out the script & let him improvise while fishing with the boy,” Howard recalled in a tweet. “I agreed and shot a few 3-camera set-ups and he was brilliant and honest in every take.”

RIP #WilfordBrimley We didn’t at all times see eye 2 eye however I owe this Cocoon scene to Wilfred who requested me to throw out the script & let him improvise whereas fishing w/the boy. I agreed & shot a number of 3-camera set-ups & he was good & sincere in each take https://t.co/yADBwFxvdR…

— Ron Howard (@ActualRonHoward) August 2, 2020

While Brimley was recognized in later years for his Quaker Oats commercials and the notorious “diabeetus” meme, “Cocoon” was part of a sequence of acclaimed performances for him within the 1980s, together with as Roy Hobbs’ supervisor Pop Fisher in “The Natural” and because the scientist-turned-abomination Dr. Blair in “The Thing.” He died on Saturday on the age of 85.

Watch Brimley’s fishing scene in “Cocoon” within the clip above.

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