There were a great many extras on the DVD of Ararat, but only a few involved Bruce Greenwood. One of the 11 deleted scenes featured him and he was, of course, interviewed along with all the other major players. There was also a featurette on the making of the film, which was originally shown over Movie TV in Canada.

In this scene, Martin has concluded a scene as the missionary Clarence Ussher and the director (Charles Azanavour) gives him some brief correction. Rouben - the screenwriter (played by Eric Bogosian) steps in with an impassioned plea as to how Martin should play the scene and is put swiftly down by Martin who tells him "to back the fuck off!"

In his commentary Atom Egoyan explains that the scene was meant to show that the movie wasn't quite working out, but he cut the scene because it was a kind of "inside" joke - the sort of thing that happens so often on a movie set. It also looks with affection at the screenwriter and his place in the hierarchy of filmmaking.

Question:	What was most challenging about your role in Ararat?
Bruce Greenwood:	I've never done this - I've never played an actor and certainly never played an actor who you get to see act and then break out, so you get to play two characters. And it shifts underfoot a little bit. It's a little slippier than what I'm used to and that's attractive, of course.
Question:	What attracts you to work in an Atom Egoyan film?
Bruce Greenwood:	It's an entirely different kind of process with him. The family that's here - I've worked with him for years and years and now I know everybody. And ...It's not that the process is effortless. But it's REALLY comfortable..and nurturing..and all that stuff that you just don't.....Once you've been in this business long enough, you realize you don't get that for free and you don't get it that often. When everybody's just here to do it because they love it.