Jaws star Richard Dreyfuss pulled out of SharkCon on the weekend after he was hospitalised with viral bronchitis.
The 77-year-old, who additionally starred in Shut Encounters Of The Third Sort and Stand By Me, was as a result of make an look on the Florida occasion, however in a latest video message posted to the conference’s Instagram account, mentioned that he wouldn’t be in attendance after being recognized with viral bronchitis.
“Howdy, fellow Cons. I’m very, very sorry to inform you that I’ve been recognized with viral…viral…What’s it?” he mentioned.
Dreyfuss’s spouse, Svetlana Erokhin, can then be heard off-camera, reminding him that he had contracted bronchitis.
“I’ve been informed by my medical doctors I can not fly, and I must fly 5 hours to get [to SharkCon],” he added.
“I’m terribly sorry as a result of I had deliberate to be there and had been trying ahead to it. However I’m unable to take action. I don’t need to get anybody else sick, and I don’t need to get sicker myself. I really feel horrible about not exhibiting up, and I really feel worse about exposing you to this, apparently, very viral sickness.”
Dreyfuss had been scheduled to seem on the occasion with followers for solo photograph alternatives in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Jaws, in addition to solid images with co-stars Carla Hogendyk, Jeffrey Voorhees, and brothers Jonathan and Steven Searle.
He starred as marine biologist Matt Hooper, who provides to assist his city’s police chief monitor down and seize a killer shark within the 1975 movie directed by Steven Spielberg.
SharkCon has additionally supplied an apology to followers, and confirmed: “All pay as you go autographs and photograph ops will mechanically be refunded. There is no such thing as a motive to achieve out.
“It should take 5-10 enterprise days plus what your financial institution takes for them to be processed. We’re so sorry for any inconvenience. Thanks.”
Elsewhere, Jeannot Szwarc, director of Jaws 2, handed away earlier this 12 months on the age of 85.
