| B.L. | You play a submarine captain in Below. What was it like being in command? |
| B.G. | It’s a nice change for me as an actor; you’re not in command a lot of the time.
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| B.L. | You must get so many scripts thrown at you these days, what was it about this one that caught your eye? |
| B.G. | It was just watching this character unravel. Here was this guy who really thought he was one man and very quickly realizes that he isn’t that guy and tries to deny that day after day while everything around him begins to unravel.
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| B.L. | So was it a big challenge for you? |
| B.G. | Oh yes because you shoot it all out of sequence. It was hard to keep track of just where he was falling apart and when he was keeping it together so yeah, it got tricky.
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| B.L. | Never mind that as an actor, but also working in a very claustrophobic environment. |
| B.G. | It’s just awful. It’s like six guys standing in your face all day long. Talk about getting in your personal space. It becomes a real issue and it gets tense.
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| B.L. | And Matt Davis just told me that he didn’t shower for two weeks to get into character! |
| B.G. | Matt, that’s a whole other thing that you don’t want to get into! He says it’s a method thing. Right! How close were you to him today?
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| B.L. | Pretty close. |
| B.G. | Close enough to know that it’s not really a method thing at all. OK?
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| B.L. | What was it like for you working with this great young cast? |
| B.G. | It was great and a lot of fun. Matt is a very good chess player.
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| B.L. | I guess you would need to do that to relieve the tension of the film. |
| B.G. | Yes you’re trapped in there and the chess just added to the tension mostly because I hate to lose and Matt’s a good player. It was hell.
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| B.L. | Poor Olivia Williams, the only female in the movie. I hope you didn’t give her too hard a time. |
| B.G. | Bless her heart, she had to endure a lot. A lot of guys in a small room and it becomes a locker room pretty quickly.
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| B.L. | Especially because it smells like one too! |
| B.G. | Yeah and they don’t do anything to make it any better. She was fantastic and we had a lot of fun together.
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| B.L. | The movie is pretty creepy, especially being stuck on a sub and there’s nowhere you can go so obviously you’re going to hear weird sounds. I was wondering what scares you? |
| B.G. | A lot creeps me out. I went to a movie last night that was a little scary and instead of walking out the main exit we walked out the fire exit. It was well lit, but I heard clunking on the stairway above us and that freaked me out. I’m not good in a dark alley.
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| B.L. | You have so many films coming out, but I have to know what it was like being married to Madonna in Swept Away. |
| B.G. | That was hell. No, we had a lot of fun and we shot in a beautiful part of the world in Malta and Sardinia. How bad can that be?
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| B.L. | And working with Guy Ritchie, wow! |
| B.G | (in an English accent) Yeah,it was great. Guy was all right mate. Yeah.
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| B.L. | Now you’re working with Harrison Ford? |
| B.G. | Yes. We’re having a grand time.
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| B.L. | Bruce, it’s a tough life. |
| B.L. | It's good. Knock wood, things are really going well right now.
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| B.L. | In a few months you’ll be coming to Toronto to shoot with Deepa Mehta? |
| B.G. | It’s a little romantic comedy about a couple of people finding love a little later in life. It’ll be nice to be working back in Canada again.
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