USA: BRUCE WILLIS ATTENDS WORLD PREMIERE OF HIS NEW COMEDY FILM "THE WHOLE NINE YARDS" WITH CO-STAR MATTHEW PERRY

Record ID: 388914

  • Title: USA: BRUCE WILLIS ATTENDS WORLD PREMIERE OF HIS NEW COMEDY FILM "THE WHOLE NINE YARDS" WITH CO-STAR MATTHEW PERRY
  • Date: 2nd March 2000
  • Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (JANUARY 22) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (ENGLISH) BRUCE WILLIS SAYING "It certainly has that screwball quality to it. It's the loosest thing that I've done in a long time. Even though my character is fairly deadpan, I have a couple moments that are just outright silly, just outright for the simple sense of the laugh. But the film as a whole, I think, is probably the silliest thing that all of us have done for a while." (SOUNDBITE) (ENGLISH) MATTHEW PERRY SAYING "Any nervousness that I had about working with Bruce went away the first time I had dinner with him when we just realized, oh, we're cracking each other up here, you know, so, I wasn't too nervous, but, yeah, it wasn't a pairing that I was expecting, but I was very happy about it." (SOUNDBITE) (ENGLISH) BRUCE WILLIS SAYING "We have similar comic sensibilities and I think some of our timing is lined up. There were certainly days when we were working in the house and that whole kitchen scene where no one had to come up and tell us, you know, Matthew would just pick up a cue exactly at the right time or I would give him a look at just the right time that made it funny and no one really had to direct that."
  • Embargoed: 17th March 2000 12:00
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  • Location: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES AND FILM LOCATIONS
  • Country: USA
  • Reuters ID: LVA6IXZHRUYHQADS4BJLVBSEHOLT
  • Story Text: In the same week as his hit film "The Sixth Sense"
    walked away with six Academy Award nominations, Bruce Willis attended the World Premiere of his new comedy "The Whole Nine Yards," on Thursday, February 17 along with his co-star Matthew Perry.
    In an unusual and perhaps unexpected pairing, Bruce Willis and Matthew Perry play suburban next-door neighbors whose lives are entwined and turned upside down when one of them turns out to be a notorious mafia hit man hiding out from a dangerous Chicago crime family.
    Perry takes a break from his role in the popular television situation comedy "Friends" to play Nicholas Oseransky, a mild-mannered dentist living in suburban Montreal with a wife who wants him dead, played by Rosanna Arquette.
    His life is changed forever when Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski moves in next door, played by Willis.It seems Jimmy has testified against his old mob buddies in Chicago, played by comic actor Kevin Pollack and recent "Green Mile" Oscar nominee Michael Clarke Duncan, and now he's being hidden by the witness protection program right next door to Oseransky.
    The two men soon become close friends, which only makes matters harder when the mob comes looking for him and Oseransky's wife takes out a contract on his life.
    As directed by Jonathan Lynn, who previously helmed the comedies "My Cousin Vinny," "Trial and Error" and "Sgt Bilko"
    with Steve Martin, "The Whole Nine Yards" is a broad comedy that is reminiscent of Willis' early comedic career on the televison series "Moonlighting." It also makes good use of Matthew Perry's well-known talent for physical comedy and pratfalls.
    Also in the cast are "Species" star Natasha Henstridge who plays Jimmy's estranged and endangered wife Cynthia, and American television star Amanda Peet, who plays Jill, Oseransky's bubbly dental assistant who has some unusual hobbies and interests of her own.
    "The Whole Nine Yards" opened in theatres throughout the United States on Friday, February 18.
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