Hollywood One on One

HOLLYWOOD ONE-ON-ONE

December 13, 2000

Hollywood One-on-One, the STARZ interview/entertainment show with Scott Patrick, featured two segments on Thirteen Days. The first show was centered around Kevin Costner but also included comments from Bruce Greenwood (as JFK) and Steven Culp (as RFK). The second segment was centered on Greenwood himself and - since it repeated both his comments from the first segment - is the one covered here.

Bruce's Segment:

SP: He was a grieving father in The Sweet Hereafter, he played the villain in Double Jeopardy, but now Bruce Greenwood gets the chance to play a real hero -- one named John F Kennedy, who for 13 days in October of 1962 was a profile in courage during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

BG: I watched a lot of film...and listened to a lot of tape...and read an insane amount...a bunch of different accounts of this event and these days, and eventually it all sort of swirled through my system..and that's who I came up with.

SP: Bruce Greenwood didn't know John F. Kennedy, but he knew enough to know he's no John F. Kennedy.

SP: I assume no one ever said you know, you look a lot like John F. Kennedy?

BG: No, no....

SP: Greenwood knew he didn't look like Kennedy, act like Kennedy or sound like Kennedy, but that didn't stop him from throwing his hat into the ring.
The movie is Thirteen Days and Greenwood had less than 13 days to prepare....

BG: I heard that I might have to audition when I was on a trip to NY. So before I jumped on the plane, I jumped on the internet, and pulled up a couple of sound files from the Kennedy Library and I dumped it onto a cassette and listened to it on the plane and I thought, you know what, this isn't good enough. That's not enough. I won't do the audition!

BG: So I got to New York and did our week thing in NY, and then the last day I was there they said, "Listen, you have to go in today or you can't go in." I go, "But I'm not ready!" They said, "Well OK then, you're not going in". And I thought, "Oh, all right. If I'm not going to get it, I have nothing to lose. I'll go in." I listened to the tape and walked down there. In fact, during the first audition, I started talking, then stopped, grabbed the headset and put it back on, and when "oh"...... So, I was utterly unprepared. But then we started to work.....

SP: Greenwood plays the President during one of the most trying times in American history, the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Joining Greenwood in the Oval Office.....
(small section on Costner and Culp)

SP: Bruce Greenwood is the first Canadian President of the United States, but even though he grew up in Canada, Bruce understands why this story is still compelling, nearly 20 years later....

BG: When I watched the movie I didn't expect this much tension.

BG: When you shoot it, you're thinking day to day, you're dealing with it scene by scene; it takes a long time to shoot....

BG: But man, I felt like I had to have the shoulder straps on while I was watching the movie..

BG: It's this big Hollywood production, but at the same time, it's addressing these more profound themes that we should all take care to discuss every now and then.

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SP:	He was a grieving father in The Sweet Hereafter, he played the villain in Double Jeopardy, but now Bruce Greenwood gets the chance to play a real hero -- one named John F Kennedy, who for 13 days in October of 1962 was a profile in courage during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
BG:	I watched a lot of film...and listened to a lot of tape...and read an insane amount...a bunch of different accounts of this event and these days, and eventually it all sort of swirled through my system..and that's who I came up with.
SP:	Bruce Greenwood didn't know John F. Kennedy, but he knew enough to know he's no John F. Kennedy.
SP:	I assume no one ever said you know, you look a lot like John F. Kennedy?
BG:	No, no....
SP:	Greenwood knew he didn't look like Kennedy, act like Kennedy or sound like Kennedy, but that didn't stop him from throwing his hat into the ring. The movie is Thirteen Days and Greenwood had less than 13 days to prepare....
BG:	I heard that I might have to audition when I was on a trip to NY. So before I jumped on the plane, I jumped on the internet, and pulled up a couple of sound files from the Kennedy Library and I dumped it onto a cassette and listened to it on the plane and I thought, you know what, this isn't good enough. That's not enough. I won't do the audition!
BG:	So I got to New York and did our week thing in NY, and then the last day I was there they said, "Listen, you have to go in today or you can't go in." I go, "But I'm not ready!" They said, "Well OK then, you're not going in". And I thought, "Oh, all right. If I'm not going to get it, I have nothing to lose. I'll go in." I listened to the tape and walked down there. In fact, during the first audition, I started talking, then stopped, grabbed the headset and put it back on, and when "oh"...... So, I was utterly unprepared. But then we started to work.....
SP:	Greenwood plays the President during one of the most trying times in American history, the Cuban Missile Crisis. Joining Greenwood in the Oval Office..... (small section on Costner and Culp)
SP:	Bruce Greenwood is the first Canadian President of the United States, but even though he grew up in Canada, Bruce understands why this story is still compelling, nearly 20 years later....
BG:	When I watched the movie I didn't expect this much tension.
BG:	When you shoot it, you're thinking day to day, you're dealing with it scene by scene; it takes a long time to shoot....
BG:	But man, I felt like I had to have the shoulder straps on while I was watching the movie..
BG:	It's this big Hollywood production, but at the same time, it's addressing these more profound themes that we should all take care to discuss every now and then.