'The Insider' Director Michael Mann Remembers Christopher Plummer: "One of the Brilliant Shakespearean Actors"
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hollywoodreporter.comChristopher Plummer diedpeacefully at his Connecticut home on Feb. 5 at age 91. Elaine Taylor, his wife and best friend for 53 years, was by his side.
I was in awe of Chris starting in 1969, when I was just out of film school in London and saw him as the lead in The Royal Hunt of the Sun.
I wanted to work with him ever since. He was so gracious, and meeting him for the first time was enthralling. Later, in editing The Insider, we might have a 60 Minutes broadcast on one monitor and my dailies on another, and we would suffer a momentary perceptual dissonance: Which one was the real Mike Wallace?
One insanely great dinner occurred during the shoot in Louisville, Kentucky. I invited Chris, Al Pacino, Colm Feore and the real Lowell Bergman.
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