Acting was like, just talking, you know? I thought I was doing a movie called My Dinner with Andre.' And you want to be an actor because it's easy. "And one of the things I don't care what any artist tells you it's easy.
"Because I'm lazy, Dreyfuss confesses, lowering his voice to a near-whisper. You couldn't avoid it, it came with the territory. "But then I was OK, and then everyone else got hurt. This is the first time I knew I was going to earn my money.ĭreyfuss earned his paycheck by wrenching his back in the second week of shooting. I mean, big surprise, they offered me a whole lot of money, the diminutive, graying actor says during his session. Anthony's College at Oxford University, says he took his "Poseidon role for the money. Oscar-winner Richard Dreyfuss, who at 58 professes less interest in acting than in his current position as a senior advisory member at St. "So I said, Well, I guess we got it.' I was glad to be done with it. "I was kind of aware of where we were and I came up and Wolfgang was at the monitor going, Oh, my God,' Russell recalls.
"You also had no goggles on so it was very difficult to see and you were dependent on someone to swim in and give you air underwater.Īt the end of the second take, Russell says he was becoming disoriented and on the verge of blacking out when the "safety person reached him with the regulator and revived him while leading him out of the enclosure. "It was the underwater stuff that was psychologically difficult to do because once you went in there was no way out, Russell said. But he, too, succumbed to the grueling conditions on the "Poseidon set, coming down with pneumonia at one point, and nearly drowning at another, when he was required to hold his breath for an extended time in a completely enclosed chamber. Russell is next in the celebrity seat, still looking, at 55, every inch the rugged leading man with his ruddy outdoor complexion and clean shaven chin jutting out like Gibralter. It's absolutely amazing what happens to your body when you're in the water for that period of time.
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"Your skin gets so soft you can cut it with your fingernail. Then it was back into the gigantic 22-foot deep pool and the inundated sets on Warner Brothers' Stage 16. In another sequence, Lucas fell from the wall of a flooding tank and snapped the tendons in his left thumb, requiring surgery. The first came when Kurt Russell accidentally opened a deep gash over Lucas' right eye with a heavy flashlight while the two men were swimming underwater through a narrow passage. "I was hospitalized twice on this movie, Lucas says. The lean, athletic-looking, blue-eyed star of "Glory Road and "Stealth a certified scuba diver himself looks capable of handling anything they can deal out on a mere movie set, but he says the "Poseidon shoot was no pleasure voyage. You're not, says Josh Lucas, who plays gambler Dylan Johns in the new film. "You're not really acting much in this movie. Scary as hell like disaster is, and see how normal people react. "That's what I wanted realistic, very hard-edged.
"With all the tools we have we can make it truly frightening and really realistic, really get across the idea of what disaster is, he says during roundtable interviews with the press at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel. The real risk of pain, permanent injury and death by drowning sparks genuine fear.Īnd that's just what director Wolfgang Petersen was after in his remake of 1972's seagoing disaster epic, "The Poseidon Adventure, wherein a giant rogue wave turns a cruise ship upside down, leaving only a handful of passengers alive and trapped in an upside down world rapidly filling with water. When people are forced to swim blindly through confined spaces, sometimes under a fiery surface, holding their breath for excruciating lengths of time and suffering serious bumps, bruises and abrasions during long hours in over-used water that's undoubtedly breeding all manner of bacteria, little dramatic training is needed. BEVERLY HILLS There wasn't a lot of acting required of the "Poseidon cast, and the actors are the first to admit it.
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