Bruce's interview is exerpted here:
There's plenty of spectacle here, but the actors are so good; they really
are. One of the reasons I was excited about being a part of this is that the
cast is really good. To watch them make more out of something that, at face
value, is pretty stock. But the dialogue is clever, and the relationships are
polar enough that there's plenty of tension between the characters. And the
actors are really good, so moment-to-moment it can be fun, and be interesting
and quite human. Hopefully within the great big spectacle that this film
undoubtedly will be, at the core of it, at the heart of it, there will be
some people that you find fun to watch.
Can you give an example?
No. It's every scene. Everyone's working hard to make little tiny beats
happen and to get the mercury kind of beading and rolling. Aaron is
particularly devoted to that. It's really interesting to watch him work. And
Stanley likewise. They are very creative guys. And Hilary is fantastic. She's
really fun to be around and completely unforced.
She's effortless in the way she performs. It's fun to feed off that. I think
this movie has every chance of being quite watchable.
What has been especially challenging for you?
Physically, pretending to be weightless was tricky. When Iverson makes his
entrance, he floats in ... You probably shouldn't write this because it might
spoil it, but I was on the end of teeter-totter [seesaw] kind of thing. I was
suspended on something that was kind of up my ass for the space shuttle
stuff. It feels really oafish and goofy, but then you watch the playback on
the monitor and go, 'OK, I've gotta remember to let my hands kind of stretch
out...' just tiny little things like that.
That was kind of tricky. And working within a tight space and making it
physically interesting is tricky also.
