March 13, 2001Kevin Costner, Bruce Greenwood and director Roger Donaldson all attended a special celebrity screening of their movie Thirteen Days at The American Embassy in London. The reception / screening was held three days before the movie's London release on March 16th. A general release was scheduled for a week later.
Coverage of the event was featured in an article at Empire Online. The excerpts on Bruce follow:
All The President's Men
14/03/2001
The American embassy in London played host to a special celebrity screening Thirteen Days last night, with Kevin Costner, Bruce Greenwood and director Roger Donaldson all in attendance.
A red carpet lined by flaming braziers led guests from British to American soil while US military brass stood in full uniform to greet welcome them in the foyer. The setting was a fitting one for the film, a political drama about the Cuban missile crisis in the 60s and the rifts it revealed within the White House. "It's great," Costner told Empire Online about the choice of venue, "I feel like if I get in trouble I've only got twenty steps to get out of it."
The film stars unknown actors Bruce Greenwood and Stephen Culp as John and Bobby Kennedy, joining Kevin Costner as the driving forces behind a peaceful solution to the incident, which could have so easily resulted in world war three. Empire Online caught up with director Roger Donaldson to discover what drew him to bring one of last century's most profound political events to the big screen.
EO: The film really hinged around the casting of the Kennedys, was the casting of relatively unknown actors always a key element for you?
RD: As far as the audience is concerned these actors are totally unknown. They may know some of their films but I don't think they really have a knowledge of these actors. Bruce Greenwood is somebody whose career I've kept track of. I knew what a chameleon he could be, so I got him in to read. I saw a lot of people who were inappropriate and I was getting nervous, I've got to be honest because I thought 'you can't make this movie unless you can make these characters more than just charicatures of the Kennedys'. If you see the pictures of these characters alongside the real people they don't bear a close resemblance at all but what they managed to do was get totally into character with their body language and persona.
The full article/interview is at Empire Online
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