Washington [US], April 24 (ANI): Actor
Jason Isaacs
recalled being questioned by director
Michael Bay
on the first day about his performance during the shoot of the 1998 science fiction disaster film, \’
Armageddon
\’, featuring an ensemble cast that includes
Bruce Willis
with
Billy Bob
Thornton, Liv Tyler, Ben Affleck, Will Patton, Peter Stormare, Keith David, Owen Wilson, William Fichtner and Steve Buscemi.
\”I do the one scene in which I speak, and Michael goes, \’Hey, what is that? theatre training?\’ \” recalled Isaacs, adding after listening to the question from Bay, he replied, \”I absolutely….myself, obviously, thinking I\’m gonna be fired. I\’m clearly declaiming all over the place,\” reported People.
He stated that he apologized, \”[Michael] responds with, \’Is this how they train you at theater school?\’ And I thought to myself, \’Oh my goodness. This is my biggest fear come true,\’\” Isaacs mentioned according to the source.
\”I dash over to him and ask, \’Was that awful?\’ He replies, \’No, it was amazing,\’\” he mentioned.
Led by
Bruce Willis
,
Armageddon
follows the story of NASA enlisting a group of oil drillers to fly into space, land on a massive asteroid that\’s hurtling towards Earth, drill into the rock and insert a nuclear bomb to destroy it. It was a massive hit, reported People.
Jason Isaacs
, portrayed scientist Ronald Quincy, recalled, \”I recall thinking, \’This marks the lowest point of my career,\’\” according to Isaacs.
\”I was engaged in \’the smartest person on Earth\’ game,\” as
Billy Bob
explained to the astronauts what they were gonna do, and I was holding a papier-mache asteroid on a stick, thinking, \’I\’m not sure the smart man on the planet will be doing this,\’ \” he continued. \” \’Will I ever work again?\’ That\’s what I was thinking,\” he added, reported People. (ANI)
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