7. Gregory Peck was Vain and Kiboshed a Scene
Spielberg’s original idea for introducing Quint was to have him in the back of a movie theater, loudly ridiculing the special effects in 1956’s Moby Dick, which starred Gregory Peck. Peck, who owned part of the rights to the movie, refused to allow a clip to be used, not because he was against the general idea, but because he didn’t like his own performance in Moby Dick.
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