Dermot Mulroney braves cold for 'The Grey,' 'Big Miracle'

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LOS ANGELES — Dermot Mulroney braved arctic temperatures for nearly six months to make two very different movies about man's relationship with his fellow creatures.

From left, Dallas Roberts, Dermot Mulroney, Liam Neeson and Nonso Anozie share a scene from "The Grey." Open Road Films photo Kimberley French
From left, Dallas Roberts, Dermot Mulroney, Liam Neeson and Nonso Anozie share a scene from "The Grey." Open Road Films photo Kimberley French

In the harrowing existential thriller 综艺节目排行榜“The Grey,” last weekend's top movie at the domestic box office, he plays one of a small group of plane crash survivors hunted by gray wolves through the Alaskan wilderness. In the fact-based PG-rated romantic adventure “Big Miracle,” he has a supporting role as a National Guard commander trying to rescue three gray whales stranded off the coast of Barrow, Alaska.

“I can tell you this: All the mammals that live above the 40th parallel are friends of mine, whales and wolves alike,” Mulroney said with a smile during recent interviews at the Four Seasons Hotel.

“I think I'm the northern mammal guy this season, so I'm pleased.”

While the prolific Mulroney, 48, has earned nearly 75 film and television credits since the mid-1980s, as a leading man, he is best known for the romantic comedies “My Best Friend's Wedding” (1997) and “The Wedding Date” (2005). He also has played cops in several films, including 1995's “Copy Cat,” 2007's 国语动漫“Zodiac” and 2011's “J. Edgar,” in which he portrayed Col. Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf, an Army veteran who became the first superintendent of the New Jersey State Police and father of Gen. “Stormin' Norman” Schwarzkopf.

Fact-based drama

In “Big Miracle,” Mulroney plays another real-life military man, National Guard commander Col. Scott Boyer, a fictionalized version of Alaskan guardsman the late Scott Carroll. The movie is a dramatization of the true story of动漫大道 a family of whales that gets trapped by rapidly forming ice in the Arctic Circle and how their plight brings together Cold War superpowers the United States and Soviet Union for 1988's Operation Breakthrough.