One day he came in with food poisoning and was as sick as a dog. But we had to shoot this whole scene that was mostly close-ups of him. He was a real trooper. That's the charm about Ben. As every genre fan knows, Armageddon and the similarly themed Deep Impact were filmed almost simultaneously.
Movies always seem to come out in twos.
That's just a ridiculous phenomenon that happens in Hollywood. Maybe 'ridiculous' is not the right word, because it happens so often. But Michael is competitive. Bruce is competitive. So I think there was a healthy sense of competition and curiosity for any good gossip and rumors.