‘Squeal like a pig!’: the Deliverance scene that made – and haunted – Ned Beatty 

The late actor made his name with a risky, extraordinarily powerful scene that traumatised his co-stars – and changed him forever

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Ronnie Cox, Ned Beatty, Burt Reynolds and John Voight in John Boorman's Deliverance Credit: Alamy

Ned Beatty, who has died aged 83, was moved in 1989 to write an op-ed piece for the New York Times, under the headline “Suppose Men Feared Rape...

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