He died nine months before the movie was released, at age 42. Somehow, the completion insurance issues were resolved, and the schedule was rearranged so Cazale’s scenes could be shot first. When the studio found out, it wanted Cazale replaced. Cimino knew about his condition Universal didn’t. The actor, who had played Fredo in the first two Godfather films, was diagnosed with terminal bone cancer after being cast. Streep, then 28, worked on the film - a brutal look at the horrors of Vietnam, told through the experiences of a group of steelworkers - with her live-in boyfriend, John Cazale. But the Deer Hunter experience was bittersweet.
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