Filmography | Men of Honor (2000)
Character Gwen Sunday
Directed By George Tillman Jr.
Written By Scott Marshall Smith
Cast Robert De Niro, Cuba Gooding Jr., Michael Rapaport
Genre Biography, Drama
MPAA Rating R (for language)
Synopsis
Carl Brashear, born in 1931 to sharecroppers, joins the Navy and, after watching the heroics of Billy Sunday, the White son of a sharecropper, determines to become the Navy's first African-American diver. At the Bayonne, N.J., divers' training camp, Sunday is his instructor, and Brasher must endure hazing verging on the murderous. With Sunday and the camp's commander dead set against Brashear's graduating, his physical skills and steely determination, which he got from his father, see him through. Carl and Billy's paths cross again when each needs rehabilitation one from an injury, the other from bitterness. Their wives look on with awe and frustration.
Quotes from Charlize
"It was just absolutely amazing. It wasn't a large role, but to me that part was just so big, because it was so layered. And when you work with somebody like Bob, there's just no two ways about it. There's like four hundred ways about it."
"I only worked on Men of Honor for three weeks, but I walked away with so much. Because Bob is the kind of actor who gives you the opportunity to really go there. And we really had to go there. I mean, we were both playing drunks."
