How was Mexico City–the shooting, the people…?
Dennis Quaid: It was plain wild! Everybody knows how wild it is down there. The traffic is a mess. We were shooting a chase scene and it took us forever to do that because the traffic is such a mess–insane, slow, random…it’s funny because we would shoot our scene for the one block we managed to clear. And then to go to the next cleared block would take us hours. It was very interesting. Mexico, for our film, looked fantastic and could pass for Spain–at least the square we built which is a replica of the one in Spain. The crew was so fantastic–great and passionate, sweet people. Just a different attitude about life that comes from the heart and not from the head. EI: What made you come onboard this project? DQ: For sure the director, Pete Travis. Pete approached me and I happened to be in Spain when we met for the first time. I really like his first film, Omagh, about terrorism. It was so great and it looked so real. The script was just so amazing. I knew there was something that was go
