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Mrs. Sells and Bruce Greenwood |
The above is a photo of one fan’s mom and Bruce Greenwood. It was taken on the set, and Bonnie and her mom have been kind enough to offer us the story behind the picture. I hope you all enjoy it.
From Bonnie Sells: This is a description of how the photo of Bruce Greenwood and my mom happened.
I learned the morning of March 4, 1996 from one of my coworkers that Nowhere Man was filming in front of his house. They'd been there for a couple of days already and he had to walk through the set to get to his bus stop. On sudden impulse, I called my mom to see if she and my dad would like to go over there and see what it was like. They're retired and my dad likes to get out now and then. Around noon she called me at work and told me, all giggles, that Bruce had put his arm around her. I couldn't get much else out of her since she was still in shock - she never expected to actually MEET him. That evening, this is the story she told me when I went over to visit:
My dad was anxious to get out that morning (he's disabled and needs to get out to get his spirits lifted) and told my mom that yes, he'd love to get out to see what NwM filming looked like. They got in the car and drove over to the location (NE 24th & Tillamook). There were trucks and equipment all up and down the street. My mom parked the car just across the street from the focus of what everyone was doing - a car attached to a truck with a camera and reflector and lights all pointing to the front seat. There didn't appear to be any spectators around and it was starting to rain again. My mom walked up to the large truck behind the car/truck combo and was met by a young woman who came up to her "with her hair swinging" and asked if she could be of any help. All my mom could think to say was, "I'm looking for HIM!" The young woman knew of course whom she meant and got the word to Bruce who my mom thinks was in the big truck. She was suddenly startled to hear someone behind her say, "Here I am!" and she whirled around with what she calls a "screech" to find Bruce standing right behind her. She says he was "sparkling at me" while he shook hands with her. His hand was warm and firm and he had "sparkly eyes and a big smile". She heard the people around them chuckling at her shocked, "It IS you!"
She asked Bruce if she could take his picture and he said, "Sure!" She was so "twiddled" when she was trying to focus on him - even forgetting to take off the lens cover - that one of the crew said, "Let me have that," and someone else said "You've got an expert there". He took the camera and positioned my mom and Bruce so that the equipment would be in view behind them. That was the car prop which Alyson was driving with Tom at the beginning of Zero Minus Ten. Then my mom thanked everyone profusely and went back to the car where my dad was waiting.
While preparing to leave, she suddenly remembered that it would really be great to have an autograph by Bruce for me. (She was doing all this for me, but after meeting him is now a real Bruce fan herself.) So she mustered up her courage and "crept back over there, hating to bother them again." She found Bruce and "a lady" whose face she couldn't see, now sitting in the "car." She asked Bruce for an autograph for her daughter and handed him a pen and a small piece of paper to sign. He smilingly took the piece of paper and asked for her daughter's name. He put it on his knee, leaned over it and wrote "Hi Bonnie! Best Wishes from NOWHERE!!! xoxo Bruce Greenwood." Handing it back to her, he said something like, "How do you like that?"
Mom doesn't remember much of what else they said - she does remember she told him how much she and all of us really admired his fine acting skills and he thanked her. She also told him her daughter was letting her read the Internet mail group discussions about Nowhere Man. Bruce answered, "Oh no!" and then they started talking about whether information was sent in bits or bytes or whatever. Bruce decided it could be either and still be appropriate. My Mom then thanked him again and they "wished each other luck." After she got back to the car, she and my dad waited for a while to see what was going to happen next. But everything was being packed up and shortly after everyone, trucks, vans, and the car/truck with Bruce and "Alyson" inside, drove away in the rain.
One other thing, Bruce was wearing a heavy makeup base, as my Mom described it, and it made his face look smooth and perfect looking. That's also why he's so much darker than my mom in the photo. Probably was for the bright lighting in the car so he wouldn’t look bleached out. She said his eyes are grey-blue, his hands are "not large" and fingers are slender. "He's quite gentlemanly," she says. She also said he really stood out from everyone else and was so very good looking.
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