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"Moment to moment, the story is fun, interesting and quite humorous, says Bruce Greenwood, who plays Colonel Iverson. "The dialogue was clever, too, and the relationships between the characters are polar enough to cause plenty of tension."
COLONEL ROBERT IVERSON
Terranaut, Military, conservative, all business, professional. Has worked with Childs (Swank) on Shuttle, mission commander, some source of tension, indications of romantic legacy.
Bruce Greenwood (Colonel Robert Iverson) starred as President John F. Kennedy opposite Kevin Costner in the critically acclaimed "Thirteen Days." His lengthy credits in film and television span more than 20 years to include films such as "Double Jeopardy," with Ashley Judd and Tommy Lee Jones, "Rules of Engagement" again with Jones, "Thick as Thieves" with Alec Baldwin, Chris Menges' "The Lost Son" and "Here On Earth," opposite Chris Klein and Josh Hartnett.
Greenwood is a favorite of renowned Canadian director Atom Egoyan, having starred in "Exotica" and the acclaimed drama "The Sweet Hereafter," for which Greenwood received a Genie Award nomination. In 2002, he stars in Egoyan's "Ararat" as well as Guy Ritchie's "Love, Sex, Drugs and Money" and David Towhy's "Below."
To play their roles of astronauts turned terranauts Bruce Greenwood and Hillary Swank had the pleasure of meeting with real-life astronauts, Tom Jones and Susan Helms. Jones, shared his flight experience with Greenwood. "It was very exciting, Tom showed me a video he took when he was doing a reentry from space, and it was just fantastic," explains Greenwood. "Both astronauts were incredibly professional, but every now and then when we were looking at the video, one of them would say, 'Oh, wow, look at that.' It was nice to see the mixture of natural human awe and mixed with true professionalism."
But the discomfort of the costumes, as it turns out, was nothing compared to the simulation ride, which mimicked that of a real shuttle. It was a ride that Bruce Greenwood describes as "just a full-on bucking bronco, a head-snapping-back-and-forth, wig-coming-off event."
"Actually, I thought it was a lot of fun," laughs Greenwood. "I mean you pay money for this kind of thrill-ride everywhere else."