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NEW YORK, May 8, 2006 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal says meeting the woman she was cast to portray convinced her not to quit Oliver Stone's "World Trade Center" film.
Gyllenhaal, 28, came under fire last April when she said "reprehensible" U.S. foreign policy was "responsible in some way" for the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
Gyllenhaal told the New York Post she was so shaken by the backlash she thought about quitting the film until she met Allison Jimeno, the wife of retired New York Port Authority officer Will Jimeno.
She said if the couple did not want her in the film, she would have dropped out.
But Allison Jimeno said they had no such feelings about her portrayer.
"Right away, both Will and I felt comfortable with her and realized how sincere and passionate she is," Jimeno said.
"World Trade Center" focuses on the Port Authority officers who were the last responders rescued from from the rubble. It opens in U.S. theaters Aug. 9.
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