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Article: Plumbing a long and distinguished career; Interview / Christopher Plummer.(Features)(Arts & Leisure)(Movies)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- December 17, 1999
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It was an obsessive shoot, because Michael Mann, who is a marvelous director, is really a perfectionist about filmmaking," says Christopher Plummer of the current critically acclaimed film "The Insider."
The film, now in theaters, depicts TV network CBS suppressing a tobacco industry whistleblower's interview with "60 Minutes." "Michael is intense, and it was never relaxing," Mr. Plummer says. "But then, the subject matter was not relaxing. So it was a very good thing that he brought that tension every day to the set, which made you get in there quickly and do the scene properly.... We rehearsed quite considerably because Russell Crowe and myself had to get the ...