Like his character in the new spy thriller “The Coldest Game,” Bill Pullman has suddenly found himself uprooted from his daily life in the U.S. and dropped into an elaborate setup in Warsaw, Poland. In what he estimates is the shortest prep time he’s ever had for a feature role, Pullman agreed at the last minute to replace an injured William Hurt as a hapless, obsessive, burned-out American chess master who becomes a pawn in a 1960s Cold War plot.
“This was kind of scary to me,” Pullman tells Variety, “and therefore, I thought, worth a try.”
Pullman was brought in to play Joshua Mansky just a few weeks into filming, managing to squeeze in the Warsaw shoot between the first two seasons of his current USA Network project, “The Sinner,” after Hurt broke his leg in an off-set accident. Set to wrap a 40-day shoot next month,...
“This was kind of scary to me,” Pullman tells Variety, “and therefore, I thought, worth a try.”
Pullman was brought in to play Joshua Mansky just a few weeks into filming, managing to squeeze in the Warsaw shoot between the first two seasons of his current USA Network project, “The Sinner,” after Hurt broke his leg in an off-set accident. Set to wrap a 40-day shoot next month,...
- 3/19/2018
- by Will Tizard
- Variety - Film News
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