Brendan Fraser
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If you testify against your uncle, you realize that this can be held against you for the rest of your life.
And you can be convicted for the Smith murder.
Spend the rest of your days in prison.
Do you see that?
Do you see that?
He doesn't see that.
If you do this, you will be murdering your uncle.
Do you want to go home right now?
Yes, yes I do.
You want to see your wife and kids?
Yes, sir, I do.
These government men, they beat you and they tortured you.
Oh no, no they didn't, but they did keep me up for days.
When we started to shoot that scene, Martin told me that this should be like for Leo's character and it should be like Night of the Living Dead because everyone is in on the no and he's ushered into the hot seat and he's going to be intimidated into getting what they want.
He not only has to swim upstream, he has to be the boulder in the stream at the same time.
It was like living in...
An opera in that courtroom scene because it was a Baptist church that had been designed on the inside to be brand new 1920s Federalist architecture.