William Hurt(1950-2022)

He waived his salary for Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985) so the film could be made within its budget.

I'm still not comfortable with all this. I'm not comfortable with walking the red carpet in a tuxedo and seeing all the women with their boobs pushed up and all the men dressed as penguins - particularly when the subject of your film is the nature of violence and humanity. But that's the nature of Cannes. That's the process that we are both dealing with today.