As they confront their past differences, they investigate a series of deadly arson attacks.
With the help of seasoned arson investigator Donald Rimgale, they uncover a dangerous conspiracy that threatens their city.
“I could take a lot of heat,” he toldEntertainment Weeklyin the previously linked source.
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“It was a bitch and a half.”
“The fire was all in-camera,“he toldThe Hollywood Reporter.
And it did on occasion.”
Brian McCaffrey returns to Chicago to join the firefighting ranks, working under his estranged brother Stephen. As they confront their past differences, they investigate a series of deadly arson attacks. With the help of seasoned arson investigator Donald Rimgale, they uncover a dangerous conspiracy that threatens their city.
Russell and his co-stars, particularlyWilliam BaldwinandScott Glenn, didn’t escape the dangerous sequences completely unscathed.
“All of us got burned every day,” Russell said.
“Billy got set on fire twice.
I got set on fire three times.
Scott got fried once.”
“What Kurt did during those fires scared the crap out of me,” the director admitted.
“It’s all in the reflexes.”
“He was born to play this part,” Howard said.
Ultimately, it wasn’t lost on the actor thatBackdraftsignaled a shift in his performative evolution.
“I think Im moving up the ladder,” he said upon the film’s release.
“I’ve grown a lot as an actor in the last five years.”
Backdraftis available to rent on Prime Video in the U.S.
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