The Blue Line was one of the toughest segments of Five
Lines to shoot, hands down. There were a number of tough
locations (the Iwo Jima Memorial, a parking lot under the
Woodrow Wilson Bridge) and we were working with a time
constraint as our lead actor and very good friend Nat Taylor
had flown in from LA to donate his acting muscle to the
project. We had to get him back on a plane in twenty day's
time. We certainly had our work cut out for us on this one.
Nat stepped into the role of Mike Catalano and gave the
story a whole new feel. Even Nick himself had expressed
fears that the story of the Blue Line might be too