{"id":2494,"date":"2005-11-22T08:14:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-22T08:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2005\/11\/dennis-quaid-the-interviews-up\/"},"modified":"2005-11-22T08:14:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-22T08:14:00","slug":"dennis-quaid-the-interviews-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2005\/11\/dennis-quaid-the-interviews-up.html","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Quaid — the interview’s up!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

My interview<\/a> with Dennis Quaid<\/a> is now up at CT Movies.<\/span><\/p>\n

There\u2019s a bit of a story behind this.<\/p>\n

Most of this interview comes from a private one-on-one that I had with him at the junket in Los Angeles two weeks ago; only, maybe, two-and-a-half paragraphs come from the roundtable interview where all the questions were asked by other reporters. And Quaid\u2019s profession of faith came as a complete surprise to me. If I had been more on the ball, I would have followed it up better.<\/p>\n

As it is, I was a bit preoccupied that day. The day before, my wife had phoned me to tell me that she\u2019d just had an ultrasound that looked pretty bad; and when I checked out of the hotel only an hour or so before the interview, I discovered that I had racked up about $300 in phone charges, beyond the per diem set by the studio, because the hotel was charging an outrageous five dollars a minute. (As you can tell, I don\u2019t stay in hotels much. I figured if $1 chocolate bars cost $5 at the mini-bar, then a phone call costing between 5 and 20 cents anywhere else couldn\u2019t be more than a dollar or two per minute.) And on top of everything else, I was a little under the weather; I don\u2019t know that I would say I was sick, per se<\/i>, but I couldn\u2019t eat all that much at the hospitality suite.<\/p>\n

So, my mind was semi-elsewhere when I sat down to talk to Quaid.<\/p>\n

In hindsight, I also wonder if Quaid had been planning on \u201ccoming out\u201d, as it were, and if someone had neglected to tell us. My editor and I had originally asked for an interview with Quaid\u2019s Yours, Mine & Ours<\/a><\/i> co-star, Rene Russo, because she went public with her born-again beliefs six years ago, when her nude scenes in The Thomas Crown Affair<\/a><\/i> caused a bit of controversy. (I wrote about it here<\/a>; see also Entertainment Weekly<\/a><\/i> and Terry Mattingly<\/a>.) Paramount replied by offering us an interview with Russo and Quaid together. We said we could<\/i> do that, but we also told them we wondered if Quaid might be bored by the faith questions we would ask Russo, or if Russo might give us less candid answers if there was a third party in the room. As it turned out, Russo had bronchitis and had to skip the junket altogether, so Paramount offered us an interview with Quaid by himself \u2014 and my editor and I figured we\u2019d focus on his recent involvement in family films.<\/p>\n

Just out of curiosity, I did a bit of web-snooping the night before the interview to see if there was anything out there connecting Quaid with Christianity, but I couldn\u2019t find anything. So I simply asked him all the \u201cfamily films\u201d questions, and near the end of our allotted time, with few questions left on my plate, I tossed out a question about faith just to see if he had anything to say \u2014 and suddenly the interview got a little more interesting.<\/p>\n

So interesting, in fact, that I thought I had a scoop \u2014 until several days later, when Beliefnet<\/a> put up its own Quaid interview.<\/p>\n

Naturally, I wish I had known about all this beforehand, so that I could have prioritized those questions and given them the space and attention they deserved. And Quaid actually seemed to be more interested in answering those questions than in answering the standard family-movie questions; when his publicist stepped in to let me know that the interview was almost over, Quaid told him to give us a few more minutes. I wonder if, given that I was interviewing him for a Christian website, he had expected me to launch into those questions right from the beginning.<\/p>\n

The thing is, CT Movies covers pretty much all films as a matter of course, so we don\u2019t always pursue the testimonial angle unless we have good reason to think that we should. On the other hand, I don\u2019t believe Beliefnet.com covers film so systematically, so if you\u2019re sitting down for an interview with them, it\u2019s practically a given that personal beliefs are going to come up.<\/p>\n

Ah well, live and learn.<\/p>\n

And for those wondering about my wife: After spending the last three weeks at St. Paul\u2019s Hospital<\/a> (three blocks down the road from where we live) and getting lots and lots of \u201cbed rest\u201d there, she was moved this morning to the BC Women\u2019s Hospital<\/a>, where she will get lots and lots more<\/i> \u201cbed rest\u201d. I am told that this move is a good sign, because it means the twins<\/a> are viable now. Everybody\u2019s fine, as long as nothing happens earlier than it should.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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