TORONTO- During an encounter at the Shangri-La Hotel here, we managed to ask Alan Arkin whether his role in “Argo†is possibly the most heroic he's ever played. In the movie, which has a gala screening at the Toronto International Film Festival on Friday evening, Mr. Arkin plays a wily movie producer who sets up a fake film, called “Argo,†to help spring a group of people from the clutches of hostile militants during the Iran hostage crisis of years past.
“Heroic, no, I was in Hollywood the whole time,†said Mr. Arkin, who is not one to claim credit where credit is not due. But he did volunteer, without explanation, what immediately struck him as being his three most heroic roles. Those were in: “The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming,†wherein he played Lt. Yuri Rozanov, an officer of a grounded Russian submarine; “Catch 22,†in which he played the war-weary Captain Yossarian; and “Escape From Sobibor,†a television film about underground resistance in a Nazi extermination camp.
Meanwhile, Ben Affleck, who directed and starred in “Argo,†had other things on his mind. As he stepped off an elevator on the third floor of the Shangri-La, Mr. Affleck's eye was caught by a stand-up poster for “Cloud Atlas,†which, like his own film, is being distributed by Warner Brothers.
“I really want to see this movie,†Mr. Affleck told his entourage.
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