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Sept 3 2014
The Captive's Bruce Greenwood and Atom Egoyan make a dynamic movie duo
By Richard Crouse
Bruce Greenwood first met director Atom Egoyan in a singles bar. "Atom
was alone in the corner and I felt sorry for him," says Greenwood. "We
were introduced by a mutual friend."
That was in the early 1990s, when Egoyan was on the brink of
international acclaim as a director and Greenwood was a film and
television star with a handful of movies and recurring roles on St.
Elsewhere and Knots Landing under his belt. That chance meeting led to
their first film together, Exotica, a study of loneliness and desire
in a lap-dancing club that Roger Ebert called "a deep, painful film"
in his four-star review. "We became good friends during that process,"
said Greenwood, "and in the ensuing years."
Three years later the pair collaborated on The Sweet Hereafter, an
adaptation of the novel of the same name by Russell Banks about the
effects of a tragic bus accident on the population of a small town.
Greenwood earned a Genie Award nomination playing a grieving father
and in 2002 readers of Playback voted it the greatest Canadian film
ever made.
Next was a small role in Ararat, Egoyan's story of a young man whose
life is changed during the making of a film about the Armenian
genocide, and then, in 2013, a cameo in Devil's Knot. Greenwood played
a judge in Egoyan's retelling of the events leading up to the West
Memphis Three murders and the "Satanic panic" that fuelled the
hysteria surrounding the subsequent trial of teenagers Jessie
Misskelley Jr., Damien Echols and Jason Baldwin.
These days Greenwood is best known for his work as Capt. Christopher
Pike in the 2009 Star Trek film and its sequel, Star Trek Into
Darkness, but he's not too busy in Hollywood -- the Quebec-born actor
has lived in Los Angeles since the late 1980s -- to reteam with his
Canadian cohort. In Egoyan's new psychological thriller, The Captive,
Greenwood joins stars Ryan Reynolds, Scott Speedman, Rosario Dawson
and Mireille Enos in a story of a child kidnapping. Egoyan says he and
Greenwood share a shorthand that makes for easy work on set. As for
Greenwood, he says he trusts the director, "more than anyone I've ever
worked with. He can ask me to do anything and if my initial instinct
is 'Oh no,' it ends up being the right idea. He's a tremendous guy."
http://metronews.ca/voices/in-focus/1142945/the-captives-bruce-greenwood-and-atom-egoyan-make-a-dynamic-movie-duo/
Sept 3 2014
The Captive's Bruce Greenwood and Atom Egoyan make a dynamic movie duo
By Richard Crouse
Bruce Greenwood first met director Atom Egoyan in a singles bar. "Atom
was alone in the corner and I felt sorry for him," says Greenwood. "We
were introduced by a mutual friend."
That was in the early 1990s, when Egoyan was on the brink of
international acclaim as a director and Greenwood was a film and
television star with a handful of movies and recurring roles on St.
Elsewhere and Knots Landing under his belt. That chance meeting led to
their first film together, Exotica, a study of loneliness and desire
in a lap-dancing club that Roger Ebert called "a deep, painful film"
in his four-star review. "We became good friends during that process,"
said Greenwood, "and in the ensuing years."
Three years later the pair collaborated on The Sweet Hereafter, an
adaptation of the novel of the same name by Russell Banks about the
effects of a tragic bus accident on the population of a small town.
Greenwood earned a Genie Award nomination playing a grieving father
and in 2002 readers of Playback voted it the greatest Canadian film
ever made.
Next was a small role in Ararat, Egoyan's story of a young man whose
life is changed during the making of a film about the Armenian
genocide, and then, in 2013, a cameo in Devil's Knot. Greenwood played
a judge in Egoyan's retelling of the events leading up to the West
Memphis Three murders and the "Satanic panic" that fuelled the
hysteria surrounding the subsequent trial of teenagers Jessie
Misskelley Jr., Damien Echols and Jason Baldwin.
These days Greenwood is best known for his work as Capt. Christopher
Pike in the 2009 Star Trek film and its sequel, Star Trek Into
Darkness, but he's not too busy in Hollywood -- the Quebec-born actor
has lived in Los Angeles since the late 1980s -- to reteam with his
Canadian cohort. In Egoyan's new psychological thriller, The Captive,
Greenwood joins stars Ryan Reynolds, Scott Speedman, Rosario Dawson
and Mireille Enos in a story of a child kidnapping. Egoyan says he and
Greenwood share a shorthand that makes for easy work on set. As for
Greenwood, he says he trusts the director, "more than anyone I've ever
worked with. He can ask me to do anything and if my initial instinct
is 'Oh no,' it ends up being the right idea. He's a tremendous guy."
http://metronews.ca/voices/in-focus/1142945/the-captives-bruce-greenwood-and-atom-egoyan-make-a-dynamic-movie-duo/