Moviehole recently posted an interview with Alex O’Loughlin and Gabriel Macht. It’s the first interview, with the exception of the recent video interview, in which Alex gets to talk about working on the action thriller Whiteout! Alex plays Russell Haden and explains who his character is:
Russell is an Australian pilot who’s based in the same base we meet all the characters, where they all live. He does fly-outs. He moves gears, scientific equipment, people, food and supplies. They have a string of pilots working down there. They sort of run their own schedule. As long as they get the work done, it doesn’t really matter. He’s an Aussie lad, he’s a bit of a womanizer, he’s got all these sorts of fronts, that’s his way of portraying himself that is, that keeps everyone at arm’s length, because essentially he has, like all the characters in the show, another agenda. He has an MO. In this very close-knit community, he does his best to keep everybody as far away from his business as he can.
About how he experienced filming in an extremely cold climate, Alex says:
We shot in northern Manitoba on the frozen lakes, which is about three hours north of Winnipeg. And it was cold. It was minus forty, minus fifty. We spent the first couple of weeks there, and then we went to Montréal and we spent a few months in the sound stages and did all the internal stuff we needed to do. The great thing about doing all the exteriors where we did them in the conditions that we did them in, is that, essentially, that’s very close to the conditions where this film is situated and where these people live and have to survive. And it changes how you feel. Your blood pressure drops, you get dizzy, euphoric, and the simplest tasks become difficult. You can’t see the horizon for the edge of the ice, and so you can get disorientated very quickly. So it was very helpful as an actor.
Read the full article:
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What a great article, I can’t wait to see the movie, just to see Alex on the big screen!
Thank you MizzoH for the very interesting article. It is great to read about Alex’s perspective on his role and the freezing cold conditions they filmed Whiteout in.
Good article Mizz… I’m looking forward to this movie! It will be great to see him in something again…
I am anxiously waiting for Alex’s return to the screen with Whiteout this month and Three Rivers on CBS next month! His character in Whiteout has me intrigued and I like the idea of a secretive, bad boy named Russell.
Great article mizzoH. It’s wonderful to have more details from Alex!