Who is mark pillow

Maybe those years were spent in preparing for the role! I worked for an airline company for a time, then as a telephone lineman and later as a labourer on an oil rig. When I moved back to Los Angeles I was a bartender in nightclubs which left me free to take acting classes during the day.

Apart from the studio work at Elstree, a lot of the shooting was done on location at Milton Keynes which doubled for the city of Metropolis. I work out daily in the gym back home, and also while I was here in London. Nuclear Man had to have a good head for heights. Like Superman, there was all that flying around to do.

The clincher came when the producers heard I do handgliding and skydiving. I've competed in both sports professionally. The final stroke of luck was that the son of Sidney Furie, the Canadian director of Superman IV, worked in the same talent agency that represented the actor in Los Angeles. Like all good agents, he had Mark's photos on file and was able to produce them when his father was casting. A twenty-minute chat with Furie and he had no need to look further for Nuclear Man.

The toughest test was getting used to the wires for the flying scenes. Christopher was a bit different. He was quite Ivy League: very well spoken and intense.

You see them in public and they put on a persona to guard themselves. It led to a very wooden performance, which made it a challenge. It was a famously troubled production: were many of your scenes cut? I believe the shoot was quite difficult, but I only really felt it was through Sidney, who was obviously having a tough time. That so much was being cut. What happened to you afterwards?

Did 'Superman IV' stall your career before it even started? I had some interviews for things afterwards. I sat down with Stallone and the Carolco producers and talked about it, although the part never actually made it to the film. I went back to class, did some commercials. National commercials in America pay very well, so I did some of those. It was during that time that I had some chances to move to Europe, and in retrospect it would have been a better choice.

At the time I thought the States was the Holy Grail, but looking back I knew American actors who lived in Europe and made five or six films a year. Of course, you never saw them! Shoulda woulda coulda. He was a nice director. I enjoyed my time with him. Was that your final role? More or less. After that I worked in heavy equipment for a while, doing excavating, bulldozers, front-end loaders, things like that. Then I was a property manager for homes in the mountains in Colorado, and I took care of thoroughbred horses… I was just looking to find things that are interesting to do!

Learned to skydive at California City Parachute Club and made several dozen jumps. Mark sustained a broken foot in one of the takes, during the moon fight climax in Superman IV.

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