Callum Keith Rennie interview at E!Online

[c-regalis.livejournal.com]

E!Online guy: I hope you all remember Callum Keith Rennie. This Alberta boy rocked our world as Lew Ashby in Californication. Now he's back with a new show called Shattered. Let's have a look.

Callum Keith Rennie: Woah, this is, uh. This is great.

E!Online guy: Callum Keith Rennie, know it, learn it, and love it. We think he's one actor that's worth going gaga over.

Interviewer: How do you handle the whole sex symbol bit?

Callum Keith Rennie: Wow. It's-  it's just a lot of pressure. But, uh. You know. I get by with it. Uhm. I don't-  what kind of question is that? That's...

Interviewer: I don't know. I just wanted to see what you think

Callum Keith Rennie: That's insane.

Callum Keith Rennie: 'Cause I don't see myself that way.

E!Online guy: Well, we do! How can't we when he moves us with his edgy bad boy charm in hit shows like Battlestar Galactica and Californication. This time around he's ready to take his bad boy persona center-stage.



Callum Keith Rennie: It's a police drama, I'm playing a detective who has a DID, a Dissociative Identity Disorder which is brought up-  about by, uh, having his- seeing his family members be tortured and killed.

Interviewer: You carry around a extreme emotional baggage considering these heavy roles you often... considering these heavy characters you often inhabit?

Callum Keith Rennie: Does it look like I do?

Interviewer: Do you want the truth?

Callum Keith Rennie: Yeah. (starts lauging)

Interviewer: It all written on your face, Callum.

Callum Keith Rennie: Uhm, Do I-  No. It's actually some of the heavier ones that's fun.

E!Online guy: He just can't veer away from the heavy stuff. Cause soon he will be pitched against Mr. Canada himself, Paul Gross.

Callum Keith Rennie: We're working on a movie called Gunless in Osoyoos, and I'm the bad guy, he's the good guy, he gets the girl, I got a disfigured ear. He's got the Wayne's World hair. I've got good hair. And an excellent hat.

Found at E!Online, according to the website the interview was uploaded on July 6, 2009.

Comments

[vsee.livejournal.com]

I feel that way about the clips I've seen for publicity on Hardcore Logo from Canadian entertainment shows. Hosts that look like someone's mom, with a bob and a little cardigan, chirping about Hugh Dillon, particularly. How unsettling.

[rchelsea2005.livejournal.com]

Yes! I recall one particularly unenjoyable interview about Flower & Garnet. The director of the film (name? I'm drawing a blank) and Callum were on some show with this woman who maybe addressed Callum like...twice? He was just sitting there the entire time, and the only questions she posed to him were done in a way that was *completely* socially awkward.

[c-regalis.livejournal.com]

You mean this (http://community.livejournal.com/the_ckr_files/26964.html) one. I honestly don't get why everyone seems to hate her. I really think they had some kind of agreement, like, to not involve Callum too much. I think he looks like he actually likes her. So... yeah. It's weird. I remember hating her too when I saw that interview for the first time. And now I don't understand anymore why I did. Weird.

[exbex.livejournal.com]

I like her too. It's nice to see an interviewer who's not a size 2 bubbly blonde (not that there's anything wrong with being a size 2 bubbly blonde), and Callum seemed to respond to her pretty well, he seemed relaxed around her and not annoyed at all, so there's hope for all of us dumpy intellectual chicks.

[c-regalis.livejournal.com]

Exactly. He didn't seemed annoyed, for some reason people seem to think he was. And yeah, she isn't really the prettiest of TV show hosts ever, but damn, she knows what she's doing.