- Title: FJ-HRN-186
- Summary: The Sentinel: The Sentinel Junket Michael Douglas Interview
- Description:05:58:58 - Sound bite: Michael Douglas I always loved movies where you learned something that you didnt know before secret service. And so we really spent a tremendous effort on the sentinel doing a lot of research, getting a lot of x-secret service agents in to give us kind of a real detail of all the aspects of that kind of operation. I though t we could do a really good grab them slam dance, in your face, political thriller with a plot that you may not be able to guess the ending. Which Im a big one of cause I can usually guess when a movies going to turn out. And do a behind the scenes of what the secret service is all about. 06:00:26 - Sound bite: Michael Douglas Im an actor you know. Thats sort of what youre paid to do. I think particularly in this kind of role where youre a professional, an officer secret service agent where your emotions are under control all the time, it was one of the few opportunities to emote, to be emotional as you look at the script and it needed to be done. And that what we do for a living. In the sentinel, Kiefer Sutherland plays a younger secret service agent. Im sort of his mentor. And we were best of friends before he started getting paranoid about me having had an affair with his wife. And so that was just an important moment in the picture. 06:01:27 - Sound bite: Michael Douglas Yes, I thought if we were going to pull the Sentinel off, we had to have all that details and we spent an inordinate about of time, just understanding the behavior. I mean ultimately, can I ever understand how somebody instinctively just go in and stand in front and take a bullet? No. I think thats a life long career a to be commended. But I think whats going to make the movie kind of special is all this behind the scene detail which helps to kind of add to the tension of the moment. 06:02:11 - That you probably are not going to guess the ending.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/2006
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 2000s
- File Name: FJ-HRN-186