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 Dennis Quaid
Interview By: Michael Dance The man with the most affable smile in show business, Dennis Quaid is one of the most reliable actors we have, with a three-decade long career of well-received films. It was back in 1979 that Quaid first broke out as one of four teenage friends in the hit Breaking Away, and classics like The Right Stuff and Postcards from the Edge followed. After a spotty mid-'90s of hits and misses, Quaid re-emerged with success stories both critical (Traffic) and commercial (Frequency) before establishing himself as a bona fide box office draw in the hit Disney spots movie The Rookie. Not wanting to pigeonhole himself as simply the likable lead, Quaid's next role was playing Julianne Moore's closeted gay husband in the 1950s-set Far From Heaven - a performance that most people agree was snubbed of an Oscar nomination. Since then, he's toyed with his age (playing a man with a much younger boss in In Good Company), starred in a mega-blockbuster (The Day After Tomorrow) and even played the president of the United States (in the satire American Dreamz). And while not all of his movies have been hits, he's currently back on top - Vantage Point, an ensemble action flick that tells six different perspectives of a supposed presidential assassination, debuted at #1 last weekend. We were luckily enough to chat with Quaid just prior to the film’s release. "It's sort of like Andy Warhol's fifteen minutes of fame," Quaid says of the film’s structure, which shifts viewpoints between its six main characters. "You get to be the star of yours for fifteen minutes, and then you're a glorified extra in everybody else's story. Just like in life!" He notes that it's easier than carrying the entire movie on your back. "It was actually a very fun way to work. I thought it was such an interesting way to tell a story. I'd seen Rashomon [a classic movie with a similar narrative conceit] before, and I think there was actually an American version of Rashomon made shortly after that. It had Paul Newman in it. I can't remember the name of it. It was told from three different points of view. It's a very interesting way to tell a story." (The film is 1964's The Outrage.) And despite his modest claim to only be the star of his section of the film, if you had to pick a central character of the film, it would be Quaid. One of the major climactic set pieces is a ten-minute car chase through the narrow streets of Spain. Quaid admits that seeing the finished chase was an eye-opener. "We really wanted it to be good, and I did a lot of the driving myself, 'cause I only have seventeen lines of dialogue in this movie so I had to do something," he says with a grin. "To see it all put together, because it was done in bits and ... |
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