‘He was a very dear friend’: Cary Elwes on life after The Princess Bride – and losing Rob Reiner 22%
The Guardian - By Fiona Sturges - 3/20/2026, 3:00 PM
In 1988, the actor Cary Elwes’s career had taken a nosedive. His latest film, a fantasy in which he played a farm boy turned swashbuckling hero, had bombed at the box office and the actor had been out of work for a year. One day he was in a New York restaurant when he spotted Al Pacino, so he went over and introduced himself. “He asked... more