DENNIS QUAID - QUAID FROZE FOR NEW ROLE

DENNIS QUAID didn't have to dig too deep to play a frozen climate expert in new disaster movie THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW - he really was freezing.

Computer graphics turned New York into an ice age city in the film, but Quaid admits filming scenes during one of the worst winters in Canada, where the film was shot, made him feel like he was chilled for real.

He says, "It was cold everywhere. It was cold inside the stages, it was cold outside the stages. It was cold during the day and cold as hell at night.

"There we were in Montreal from November to April, during their coldest winters on record, making this huge disaster movie about the next killer Ice Age.

"We couldn't escape from it. It actually got to a point where we learned to recognise people not by their faces, but by the colour of their parkas!

"During production, if we weren't trudging through the middle of a blizzard, then we were probably freezing wet because of the

torrential rains or hailstorms or floods or hurricanes that were happening on the other stages.

"Anyone who isn't a fan of the WEATHER CHANNEL now certainly will be after they see this movie because it has it all. It's every disaster flick you've ever seen all rolled into one giant non-stop global meteorological system."