Ford Casting Blessed by Widow

February 27th, 2001
Mr. Showbiz

While casting Ford as her late husband met with the blessing of Zateyev's widow, the movie itself has been attacked in Russia for historical inaccuracies and for portraying the Russian sailors as vodka-swilling peasants.

Says Zateyev's daughter, Irina, "Some years ago, when another scriptwriter asked us who we would like to play Nikolai, we suggested Harrison Ford. When father was still alive, we were watching an American film, The Fugitive, with Harrison Ford, and we both told him how great was the similarity between them. My father even had a scar at the same place on the chin."

Ford and Liam Neeson are currently in Toronto filming K-19, which is set for a 2002 release.

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