The Little Kidnappers
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I have done a pretty good German accent before, also with the same
director, and I've got several South African friends I've spent quite a
bit of time with recently, so I can also do their somewhat
clipped-sounding speech. But I didn't reckon that was really close
enough, and didn't want to do just a twist on the German sound, so I
contacted the Dutch consulate when the production crew arrived in Halifax,
and they arranged for me to meet someone locally with a `solid' Dutch
accent. I met the man in a bar, and we had a couple of drinks and I spent
some time with him, recording and absorbing his voice patterns. The
result is my Dr. Willem Hooft voice.
I tend to get wound up and come on too strong for youngsters like this, so
I set out to introduce myself gently. Instead, what I found was little
Charles Miller, aged five, telling me in his piping English voice, "I've
got some super jokes, Mr. Greenwood, would you like to hear them?" And
then Miller went on for close to an hour in the vein of "What's green and
sings? Elvis Parsley!" and "Did you hear about the two nuts going down
the road? One of them was a salted!"What Bruce Greenwood has to say about
The Little Kidnappers
This was a chance to play an entirely different kind of doctor [than Seth
Griffin]--different time, different place, and in any case, the role was
more one of love interest than medical expertise.
Saskatoon StarPhoenix TV Times 10/19/90
Saskatoon StarPhoenix TV Times 10/19/90
Saskatoon StarPhoenix TV Times 10/19/90
On the day we shot that scene [standing on a bridge, with Leo Wheatley
jittering like a little jackhammer in a kilt] it was kind of chilly, and
everybody thought, `Well, it's getting toward the end of the day, and he's
cold--no wonder he's shaking. [To viewers, it will appear that Wheatley
is playing at being] excited to be in a new country, excited to be taking
care of his brother. What we found out later is that he had to pee really
badly.
Canadian TV Guide 10/20/90
You'd go to lunch, and everybody would gobble their food and rush back to
the set. The kids would go full tilt for the next 45 minutes [until they
both felt] really sleepy, you know, like puppies do after they've eaten.
Canadian TV Guide 10/20/90