TORONTO — Two of the stars of the made-in-Toronto movie Three Men and a Baby have shared memories of working with Leonard Nimoy, who died last week.
Nimoy, best known for playing Mr. Spock on Star Trek, directed the 1987 comedy starring Steve Guttenberg, Tom Selleck and Ted Danson.
Based on a French film, Three Men and a Baby is about bachelors sharing a Manhattan apartment who take on the responsibility of raising one of their daughters.
The movie opened in the top spot at the box office and went on to earn an impressive $168 million.
Guttenberg told The Hollywood Reporter that Nimoy was determined to bring out the best of his actors.
“He’s the guy who wants to make you great. His plan was to make us a family. He was always encouraging us to go out to dinner together. He was manipulating the experience with a heart,” Guttenberg recalled.
“He wasn’t a Machiavellian manipulator; he was a Mother Theresa manipulator.”
On Late Night with Seth Meyers, Selleck said he wasn’t initially sure Nimoy was best suited to direct a comedy film.
“I go, ‘Well, there’s a good choice. You got this guy with no emotion who’s going to direct … a comedy,'” he said.
Selleck said he soon realize Nimoy wasn’t Spock.
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