ID4 star plans to go back to theatre roots, August 3, 1996

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Bill Pullman got himself a big part in the blockbuster Independence Day, but he's yearning for smaller things. Pullman plays a U.S. president who narrowly escapes the White House before it's blown to bits by aliens, but the former Montana State University drama teacher misses the stage.

"Oh, man, I'm so jealous of them," he said of theatre actors. "To be able to stand in a black box in a room with your lunch and a text seems like a dream to me now. It's so wonderfully clean and precise."

Pullman is doing more than pine away for his theatre roots. He's co-producing Miss Margarida's Way at the Zephyr Theatre in Hollywood, in which the main character is a junior high school teacher in drag.