SPECIAL THANKS TO...
CAMERON CROWE
HERETICCO-DIRECTOR SCOTT BECK ON HOW THE DIRECTOR NEARLY APPEARED IN THEIR MOVIE
IT’S BEEN A while since Cameron Crowe has graced the big screen — his last movie as director, Aloha, was ten years ago. But if Scott Beck and Bryan Woods had had their druthers, Heretic would have marked Crowe’s return. But this time, in front of the camera. Not as the film’s villain, Mr. Reed (Hugh Grant had that one sewn up), but as a Mormon, going door to door. “Cameron read a draft of the script,” says Beck. “We were trying to coerce him into doing a small cameo, because when he was making Jerry Maguire, he originally wanted to get Billy Wilder to do a role.” But, just as Wilder said no, so too did Crowe. “He was very, very kind about declining, and not wanting to put himself in front of the camera. And he wrote us an email that we literally printed out and framed on the wall. That bolstered us.”