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This Canadian entertainment news show aired a nice profile on Bruce Greenwood in the month preceding the release of Thirteen Days. The interview footage was from the Thirteen Days press tour as well as an interview done earlier for Rules of Engagement. Film coverage also went beyond his current assignment and included footage from Double Jeopardy, Rules of Engagement, Exotica and The Sweet Hereafter along with Thirteen Days.On January 9th, Inside Entertainment aired one of his interview statements again, but since the statement was a simple repeat from this interview, it's being incorporated onto these pages.
Playing real people are Vancouver actor Bruce Greenwood's specialty. On screen he's played Dennis Wilson of The Beach Boys, the patriarch of the Judds and now American icon John F. Kennedy.Transcript IE: He has to avoid a nuclear meltdown as President Kennedy in Thirteen Days. Bruce Greenwood studied hours of footage and read stacks of transcripts to nail all of JFK's mannerisms.
BG: What I discovered pretty quickly is that you don't become a Kennedy scholar in 6 weeks.
IE: Even though the movie takes place nearly 40 years ago, Bruce says the nuclear threat is still very real.
[note: this statement is what's also seen on Jan 9]
BG: 6,000 nuclear war heads pointed -- EACH! point at each other! The threat's VERY real. They're just as explosive as they were! The world's no bigger! It's only going to take a hundred of them to waste the globe. There's 12,000 of them! IE: This Quebec born, Vancouver raised actor is perhaps best remembered as Ashley Judd's deceitful husband in Double Jeopardy.
He played another heavy in the military drama Rules of Engagement. Now Bruce doesn't have a problem remembering his lines until this one scene with Oscar winner Ben Kingsley.
BG: We're half way through shooting a scene and there's his dialogue and my dialogue and his dialogue and my dialogue and then his dialogue and I just........And there's a long time before my dialogue. And the director goes, "What are you doing?" And I just go, "Wha- It's Ben Kingsley. He's right over there. You know?"
IE: Now an L.A. resident, Bruce came back to Canada to work with director Atom Egoyan on 1994's Exotica and 1997's The Sweet Hereafter, projects he calls the turning point of his career.
BG: Because I'd done a lot of television before that and stuff that's pretty light, and it gave me an opportunity to swing a little harder.
Closing Statement: And when he's not on the set you can probably find Bruce in his home recording studio. The part-time songwriter often collaborates with Canadian children's entertainer Norman Foote.
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