Bruce Greenwood, Arsinée Khanjian & Atom Egoyan at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival -- with Exotica

May 1994

Bruce attended the Cannes International Film Festival for the first time in 1994 as the star of Atom Egoyan's haunting masterpiece Exotica, which won The International Film Critics Award. He's shown above at a press conference - looking very un-Francis like - with Atom and his wife Arsinée Khanjian, who appeared in the film as Zoë.

BRUCE ON THE 1994 CANNES FILM FESTIVAL

Cannes was incredible, starlets stripping by the pool, being chased by paparazzi. One came up to me and asked, "Can I take your peak-ture?" I thought, "Wow, I've only been here for six hours and they want to take my picture." So he takes my picture and says, "Can you sign this?" I figured it was Polaroid. But he whips out an 8 by 10 of Dennis Quaid. "It's not me," I protested. "Sure eet ees. Eet ees you," he kept insisting. So I signed it "Dennis Quaid." I didn't want to disappoint him.
Toronto Star 12/9/94

There was this guy who came up to me in Cannes. We were just standing around at one of those sardine-line parties and...he asked, "Are you involved in the film in any way?" and I said, "Yeah, I'm one of the actors," and he goes, "Yeah. You were that guy at the end, right?" and I said, "Yeah, well, I was also in the rest of it" and he goes, "Look pal, I'm a plastic surgeon. I make my living evaluating people's faces. That guy was 50 years old." I just went, "Okay, I guess it wasn't me."
Toronto Globe and Mail 12/9/94

In Cannes a couple of years ago for Atom Egoyan's Exotica, [Bruce] was constantly stopped and snapped by a throng of paparazzi while cruising the Croisette. "Then one of them asked for an autograph, and I said, yeah, sure!" recalled Greenwood, "and he whips out this 8"x10" glossy of -- Dennis Quaid!" Greenwood, naturally, protested, but it must have lost something in the translation. "So I signed it," he laughed. "What was I to do, spoil his day?"
Toronto Sun 5/27/97

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