![]() ![]() Kennedy in Thirteen Days, LA district attorney Gil Garcetti in American Crime Story, and Jack Dunphy in Capote, as the title character’s longtime companion. Thirty years later, he finds himself playing another doctor on The Resident, now in its sixth season on Fox.Īlong the way, Greenwood had a brief, memorable run on Mad Men and played such historic characters as John F. ![]() His first big break was a recurring role in TV’s St. In a career dating to the late 1970s, getting nipped by a baby zebra probably was just another day at the office for Greenwood. But so did everybody else.” Another day at the office I got bitten by the baby zebra and kicked by the baby zebra. If you don’t, the animal will go” – he snarled – “and bite you. If you let that kind of pour out, the animal will pick it up. “But mostly for me it was sensing the vibe of the animal and trying to pitch my voice in a way that would make the animal relax. I learned how to put bridles on and all that business. “I learned how to dig the stuff out of their hooves, watched them shoe them. “Well, I petted them a lot,” Greenwood said. Did you prepare at all in terms of working with a horse trainer?” “He plays the wary, resigned Walsh with a nuanced elegance that’s likely to be lost on four-foot-tall audience members giggling at pony poop.”ĭuring a promotional session with the Canadian entertainment website Tribute.ca, Greenwood grinned at the interviewer’s observation that, “You looked like you really knew what you were doing with those horses. Greenwood seems to have parachuted in from another movie,” Stevens wrote. Picking up on Greenwood’s verisimilitude, Dana Stevens in the New York Times was particularly impressed. If it ain’t broke …īut then there is Greenwood, who earned a lifetime pass from this movie fan for his collaborations with director Atom Egoyan in Exotica and The Sweet Hereafter, films that will rip out your heart and wring it dry. Viewers can enter the story with a bingo card that includes squares labeled “farm going broke,” “plucky, headstrong daughter,” and “dead wife.” Extra points for predicting mom died in a riding accident.Īlso, in a nod to Bambi by way of Dumbo, the baby zebra is accidentally abandoned by a traveling circus on a dark and stormy night. ![]() Walsh supposedly enjoyed a lofty reputation as a trainer of champions before tragedy struck. When he carves out a training track from a cornfield, I had a flashback to my visit in 2001 with the Hall of Fame trainer Jimmy Jones in Parnell, Missouri, where his father, the legendary Ben Jones, shaped a similar track among the cornstalks at their farm. Whether he is cinching a girth or gate-schooling the stumpy-legged zebra, Greenwood’s Nolan Walsh treats the little beast of the African plains with the same solicitous care that Charlie Whittingham gave Sunday Silence. It is Greenwood who plays it straight in the face of a preposterous plot line that asks the viewer to believe a zebra can run as fast as a Thoroughbred (even though they can hit 40mph for short bursts). It is Greenwood who lifts Racing Stripes from its modest ambitions. They did not have the advantage of animated, trash-talking horseflies. The fact that Racing Stripes did more business than Brokeback Mountain, Munich, Hotel Rwanda, Syriana or Capote should not be a reflection on those fine, deadly serious pictures. So were Brokeback Mountain, Munich, Hotel Rwanda, Syriana and Capote. It’s also about a hundred minutes long, most of it trained on barnyard creatures cracking wise with CGI animated mouths. Racing Stripes is about a baby zebra who grows up to race against Thoroughbreds. Our movie correspondent’s monthly trawl through horse racing’s regular visits to Hollywood continues with some feelgood family funĭirected by Frederik Du Chau starring Bruce Greenwood, Hayden Panettiere ![]()
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