" Sneak Preview ON HER "HORIZON" Kathleen Quinlan heads into action with Paramount's ''Event Horizon " by Bridget Byrne Kathleen Quinlan (center) with co-stars Jason Isaacs andJoety Richardson in a scene from Paramount's August release, "Event Horizon. I took this because there are not many roles where women are really active," says actress Kathleen Quinlan, explaining why she'll be seen charging about in a spacesuit in "Event Horizon," an outer-space adventure that Paramount opens this August. Recently, Quinlan has been in two films in which the do-or-die stuffwaslefttoaman. Earlier this summer, she was the wife who went missing in "Breakdown," a highway horror movie headUned by Kurt Russell. And she was Oscar nominated as best supporting actress for her turn as Marilyn Lovell, the wife who had to keep her feet on the ground, literally as well as figuratively, when her astronaut husband Jim, played by Tom Hanks, soared off into destiny in the drama "Apollo 1 3." Qiuckling, Quinlan acknowledges that the choice to portray a medical technician on a space exploration team could well have been a .subconscious reaction to her previous groundings. And, furthermore, she never set out in life to be a sit-it-out. Quinlan, now turned 40, excelled at gymnastics and diving a.s a teen. But in those days, before the influx of endorsement dollars for lop athletes, she couldn't "figure out how you made a living doing that." There was a gym for the actors at the Pinewood Studios in England, where "Event Horizon" was filmed. "We used it not because of wanting to look good, but because of the need to be in good shape to wear the heavy spacesuits. They are spectacular to look at but very hot. Putting one on was like going from chilly London winter weather to the Bahamas in just minutes," Quinlan says. A search-and-rescue-mission movie, which also stars Laurence Fishbume, Sam Neill and Joely Richardson, "Event Horizon" is set in the confines of a huge and ghostly spacecraft that has mysteriously reappeared after being lost for years. Quinlan plays Peters, a single mother with a child back on earth; she's one of the space team struggling to cop)e in a ghastly atmosphere haunted by many things, including, says director Paul Anderson ("Mortal Kombat"), "the demons they bring with them." Quinlan says that Ander- .son took the time to provide rehearsal interaction and clear storyboarded images of how the finished scenes would look—essential aids for the cast, who often found themselves emoting in a lonely void that would later he linked to special effects or the work ofother actors. "A lot of time I was acting to nobcxly," says Quinlun, who rarely worked on the same days as did Fishbume, even though most of her scenes are actually with him. Ahhough Quinlan admits to never having had a deep-rooted interest in space, she feels that working on this sci-fi film and the reality-based "Apollo I?" has given her "moic ofa universal per spective." She says, "It's just too egotistical to think that we are the only lifeform in the universe," though the actress doesn't buy into any of the perceived images of aliens, which she believes are bom out of the sort of fear and prejudice usually directed by humans toward anything unknown. uinlan, who grew up in |Mill Valley, Calif., came to professional acting by when she was picked out ofa "cattle call" at her high school. Billed as Kathy Quinlan, she was given the role of Peg, who appears at the sockhop in George Lucas' 1973 nostalgia piece, "American Graffiti." In 1977, her performance as a teenager being treated for schizophrenia in "I Never FVomised You a Rose Garden" seemed to mark her out for major stardom. But since then Quinlan has favored lower-key films dom- ^^Putting [on the spacesuit] was like goingfrom chilly London winter weather to the Bahamas. " inated by character work, such as I983's "Independence Day" and I988's "Clara's Heart." In conversation, Quinlan comes across as .someone who thinks thnxigh her answers to questions; she's not glib or polished, just straightforwiird. On this day, she's biick home in Mulibu with her actor husband, Bruce Abbott and their six-year-old son, Tyler, after a New York trip to promote "Breakdown." That film, she says, had even an industry audience "yelling and carrying on, peitiaps because it taps into some unconscious fear we can all identify with." Quinlan says she's happy now with her career, but she admits there were times when she questioned her choice. "When not much is happening and there seems to be nothing you can do to change that, you do wonder But it just kept coming up that T am an actor, like it or not.' I stuck with it and took what was offered." Those offerings have also included "Hanky Panky," 'Twilight Zone—The Movie" and "The Doors." She says she is still a little surprised that she got the role in "Apollo 1 3," which reminded everyone of her talents. The film's director was, of course, Ron Howard, also an "American Graffiti" alumnus, which undoubtedly helped. But she feels that "some of the newer folks in the industry" too often cast for personality rather than character "I'm not really sure they are familiar with the term 'acting.' They don't understand what it means to play a character rather than just be a personality," Quinlan muses. Whatever the future holds, she says, "my dream job has already happened." Earlier this year, she starred in the MGM release "Zeus and Roxanne," a family comedy atx>ut a dog and dolphin that would be suitable for her son to see. During filming, she got to swim, and swim, and .swim, in the open ocean with the dolphins. It was her idea of bliss because, this one-time divci and gymnast avers, "I am re ally a sea creature. Jusl mammal that lost its fins." "Event Horizon. " Slarhiiy Laurence Fishbume, Kathleci Quinlan, Sam Neill and Joeh Richardson. Directed hy Pan Anderson. Written hy Philip l-js ner Produced by Lawrena Gordon, Uoyd Levin and Jcr emy Bolt. A Paramount relea.se Sci-fi. Opens August L
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