Director must be diplomatic

Sydney Pollack, as the first director allowed to make a movie inside the United Nations, had to watch his step and make sure officials weren't inconvenienced while filming the thriller The Interpreter.


Pollack said that although officials didn't have script-approval powers, they could toss out cast and crew if they didn't like what they saw.


"They didn't want us have people stripping their clothes off on the General Assembly floor and getting it on."


Pollack had appealed to Secretary-General Kofi Annan after a UN committee initially rejected his request to film inside its headquarters on New York's East Side.


The Interpreter stars Sean Penn and Nicole Kidman.