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No Time For Romance
The Calgary Herald
December 24, 2000
Robert Sean Leonard wonders how people find the time for romance -- the real kind -- on a movie set.
Leonard (Last Days of Disco, Swing Kids) plays a lieutenant in Glimpse of Hell, a Fox television movie that began shooting Nov. 20 at the naval dockyard in Dartmouth, N.S. It's based on the true story of an explosion that killed 47 sailors in 1989 on the battleship USS Iowa off the coast of Puerto Rico.
"We're on the set from 7 a.m. to 9 or 10 at night, and when we're not here we're sleeping," says the 31-year-old actor. "I'm always amazed at people who have affairs on set. I don't know where they find the time."
Many of the interior scenes are being filmed on HMCS Provider, a 168-metre-long Canadian naval operational support ship. Shooting has been difficult because of the narrow passageways and doorways.
The film, which also stars James Caan as the ship's captain, will air on the FX Cable network in the U.S. in March. It has not yet been sold to a Canadian distributor.
