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Star TV interviewed Bruce Greenwood from the set of Treacherous Beauties, which was filming in Toronto during the summer of 1994. The interview probably took place during the three weeks of location shooting, which took place in August. The extensive interview was featured some eight years later in a Star Close-up, from which these photos and quotes were taken:
(Toronto: 1994 On the set of Treacherous Beauties)
BG: I prefer film, it takes you a lot more time. You often get rehearsal time and there's just, here it's just 7 pages a day, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, you wait around, you wait around, you wait around, and then suddenly they slam all the actors in there and they've got 5 minutes to finish it and you're in and you're out. It's a miracle if you get something special.
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"Treacherous Beauties was a Harlequin Romance TV Movie." | ||
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Bruce Greenwood and Emma Samms on horseback | |||||||
Emma Samms: Well, Bruce is absolutely a delight. He's totally nuts but I think he would be proud of that. I don't think he'd mind me saying it at all (laughs). He's very funny. He's a very considerate actor and very professional and um, when I say considerate I'm particularly referring to the point which he had to pick me up from the ground and carry me in his arms upstairs running two steps at a time. He was very considerate that I was the only one who heard him going, "Urrgh!" (laughs).
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(Toronto: 1994 On the set of Treacherous Beauties)
BG: I'm not generally associated with controversial material. I'm associated with sort of middle of the road television material and the odd feature and ah, I just wanted the chance to do something that was a little more penetrating and a little more challenging, confrontational and controversial.
(Toronto: 1994 On the set of Treacherous Beauties)
BG: Exotica is a movie where you've got to go with a certain amount of energy and commitment to thinking. There's a couple of levels you can enjoy it on, several in fact, one is just sort of the mechanical, "who's he related to, and if she's his daughter, and he's, but she's...Oh, I see." You can do it on that level or you can do it on a slightly more gut emotional slash intellectual level and get different things from it. It just depends why you go to the movies. If you go to the movies just to be strictly entertained and to be taken on a wild ride that's basically figured out for you all the way along (snaps fingers repeatedly) then in Exotica you're going to be going, "Did I miss something?" But if you go as the kind of person who's going, "OK, I'm going to sit back and really think and I hope I learn something and I'm here to be open minded." Then you're going to come away with something.
(Toronto: 1994 On the set of Treacherous Beauties)
BG: On some days I think, "Wow, this is so stylistic. I don't know, is it unreal? Is it completely something that is so stylistic that it's brilliant or are we doing something that's so stylistic that it's unreachable." Yeah, it was a challenge for sure.
 Television Interviews |
 Treacherous Beauties |
| Exotica |
