February 5, 1995<\/p>\n
MARK OF GREATNESS
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\nAs a body-language expert in love, actor Mark Frankel is set for another film hit in a British comedy<\/i><\/p>\n
Sally Beck<\/p>\n
MAKING HIS MARK<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
With dreamy brown eyes and a chiseled profile that could turn heads in a convent, Mark Frankel is a rising star to watch – especially as a body-language expert in the new romantic comedy Solitaire for 2.<\/p>\n
As the lead in the surprise British hit Leon the Pig Farmer, Frankel showed his aptitude for comedy. In Solitaire for 2, as the lover of a palaeontologist with extra sensory perception – played by the gorgeous Amanda Pays – he shows an altogether more raunchy and self assured side.<\/p>\n
But it’s a self-assurance that has grown from tragedy. The death of his older brother Joe, four years ago, left Mark with a sense that few things in life are worth taking seriously. Very little frightens him any more.<\/p>\n
He was filming with Vanessa Redgrave in St. Petersburg when he received the news.<\/p>\n
“I was told that my brother Joe had been killed in a plane crash. He was flying a Tiger Moth plane he had rebuilt himself when a light aircraft flew into its side. The other plane went down instantly, killing the three passengers and crashing into a school playing field. Luckily the children managed to scatter before the plane hit the field.<\/p>\n
“Joe managed to fly on for nearly a mile over the school. I like to believe that he would have done anything to keep the plane away from the school.”<\/p>\n
Joe, an aerobatics pilot, was 30, three years older than Mark, when he died. Mark had always worshipped his older brother.<\/p>\n
“I thought, whatever happened in life, my brother would be there forever. When I went flying with him, we did some incredible stunts and I thought that nothing could ever happen to him. After the accident, I felt like part of me had died with him.<\/p>\n
“I tried to go to auditions but they seemed meaningless. Then I began to get stronger and stronger, as if I was taking on my brother’s strength.” Risk-taking runs in the family: Mark owns a Ducati, Suzuki and a Harley-Davidson, and admits he loves the fast life.<\/p>\n
“I do some very dangerous things. I go drag racing and I’ve jumped out of planes skydiving. There’s no more carousing around for me. I feel life’s there to be lived because I know how short it can be.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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