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    Metro News
    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/

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