THE MINION / FALLEN KNIGHT

                                  THE MINION / FALLEN KNIGHT
"1997 - Montreal. Another movie with a religious motif, similar to "Johnny Mnemonic". In this case my character was a Knight of Malta, who is in the pursuit of this key that can unlock the door to hell. So its a bit of a horror movie.

It was interesting to do research on the character, there are a couple of Greek-Orthodox churches in New York, and the character is from Malta, where the churches are Greek-Orthodox. I got to meet with a lot of priests, trying somehow to sort of merge an action character with a priest. It wasn't easy, but I hope at least the action part was good.

One of the stunt guys, an American Mohawk Indian took me to an Indian Reservation where we went surfing, diving and played with his pet wolves." 

                                                 

THE PEACEKEEPER

                                                   THE PEACEKEEPER

"An other action movie shot in Montreal. In "Peacekeeper" I co-starred with Montel Williams, who also works as a talk show host in New York. He was actually in the US Navy for a while. We had really good times off the set; he had a lot of stories about the guests he had on his show.

We shot almost the whole picture on the set, indoors all the time.

Roy Scheider was a pleasure to meet and work with.

It's tough, when you are stuck on a set sort of 12 hours a day, especially in this case as I injured my back during a stunt. It was so bad at one point that I couldn't get up. I was taking painkillers and I was lying on the floor between takes. They had to lift me up, prop me up against some piece of furniture, or the wall, to grab a gun and try to squeeze off a one-liner, a few shots or throw a few kicks. This is one example of the glamour of being an action star!"
 

"An other action movie shot in Montreal. In "Peacekeeper" I co-starred with Montel Williams, who also works as a talk show host in New York. He was actually in the US Navy for a while. We had really good times off the set; he had a lot of stories about the guests he had on his show.

We shot almost the whole picture on the set, indoors all the time.

Roy Scheider was a pleasure to meet and work with.

It's tough, when you are stuck on a set sort of 12 hours a day, especially in this case as I injured my back during a stunt. It was so bad at one point that I couldn't get up. I was taking painkillers and I was lying on the floor between takes. They had to lift me up, prop me up against some piece of furniture, or the wall, to grab a gun and try to squeeze off a one-liner, a few shots or throw a few kicks. This is one example of the glamour of being an action star!"

SILENT TRIGGER

"Russell Mulcahy who is an Australian director directed it. He did “Highlander” with Christopher Lambert a couple of years before. We shot this picture in Montreal, Canada.

I have spent much time in Paris, and Montreal had the same kind of restaurants and night life as Paris, so it was quite hard getting up in the mornings! Montreal had this French “joie de vivre” feeling about it!

I played a sniper in the picture, practicing with the US marine sniper team in Vermont, which was fun. We got to shoot this 50-caliber sniper rifle where you can hit a target up to 2 km away. At least I have this skill to take with me in the future (if I ever need it!)."