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Falling Skies Bruce Gray Talks To The Bearded Trio And Remembers Spielberg On Set.

Bruce Gray with myself Rob and my wife Rachel.
While at London Film & Comic Con I was lucky enough to talk to Falling Skies Bruce Gray.  His character was the popular Uncle Scott from series one in which he appeared in eight episodes.

Bruce Gray is no stranger to sci-fi having appeared in Star Trek, Stargate and Starship Troopers but it was his time on the set of Falling Skies that I was most interested in.  In particular whether he remembers seeing Spielberg (executive producer)  at any time during his shoot.

"I remember when Spielberg turned up on set it was like having royalty turn up.  Everyone on the set was excited and it was incredible the buzz the director generated.  Word was starting to spread that Spielberg had turned up and was walking around.  It was like the Prince of Wales had just turned up." said Gray.

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"I was tempted to go up and talk to him but we had a job to do and so did he so I didn't want to interrupt and waste his time.  It's not the professional thing to do anyway.  I didn't have to worry anyway as to my surprise and most of the crew was that he didn't leave the set until he had talked to all the cast and crew.  A great day and a professional through and through."

It was great chatting to the actor at the convention and Bruce agreed to answer our quick fire questions which you view here.  What we realised from his answers is he has a wicked sense of humour.

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