By Iain Blair

I was chatting with Dennis Quaid, an underappreciated actor who’s still going strong after over 30 years in the business. He was honored at the 2009 ShoWest Convention as “Male Star of the Year” and when you look down his long list of credits, you realize how accomplished is as an actor – notable roles include his emotional turn as a closet homosexual in 1950’s New York in the critically acclaimed 2002 film, Far From Heave; the title role of a high school baseball coach in Disney’s box-office hit The Rookie; Doc Holliday in the Western Wyatt Earp; an astronaut in the Oscar-nominated space epic, The Right Stuff.

“You just keep working and adapting – that’s the key in this business,” he told me, “You have to change.” Dennis, who’s always loved music (and gave a memorable performance as Jerry Lee Lewis in “Great Balls of Fire”), says he still plays with his band The Sharks “when I get the time – but I’ve been too busy working recently.” No wonder – he has 4 big new films due out this year. He recently finished production in Berlin for the horror film Pandorum, a story about a pair of crewmembers aboard a spaceship who wake up with no knowledge of their mission or their identities. Overture Films will distribute Pandorum in September. He also stars in the upcoming Legion – directed by Scott Charles for Sony Screen Gems – a dramatic thriller about a group of strangers stuck in a diner after a biblical apocalypse descends upon the world. He’s also one of the stars in the ensemble cast in the Paramount Pictures’G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra, an action adventure feature by director Stephen Sommers. Quaid plays General Hawk, the head of an elite military unit comprised of special operatives known as G.I. Joe. G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra is due out in August.

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