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the_ckr_files by Rita Zekas, Toronto Star, September 13, 2002
"CAN we go somewhere quiet?" the publicist asked?
Yeah, how about Pickering?
We settled for a patio table at Bistro 990 so Callum Keith Rennie could smoke.
Rennie was on his way to the screening of Claire's Hat, the renamed mockumentary about the making of Picture Claire, the contentious Bruce McDonald feature in which he co-stars and which is exiled to video store gulag.
It was McDonald's 1995 rockumentary Hard Core Logo that catapulted Rennie into mass consciousness. He played rock 'n' roll rebel Johnny Tallent and blew audiences away. Star Gazing and friend Grant were equally infatuated with Rennie.
"Do you realize that I am the only person in this theatre not wearing a black leather jacket?" asked Grant apprehensively, chafing in his Burberry trench.
Rennie could identify with Tallent. "He's one foot out the door holding on to his youth. Growing up at 17 when the punk movement started," Rennie recalled, "it was an aggressive and angry stance that I reacted to."
He grew up in Edmonton, "bizarre big sky country, where there are eccentric people trapped by the environment. I 'get' them in a different way than the Birkenstocks in Vancouver and the big city Toronto and its arrogance and fear."
We could only nod in agreement, distracted by Rennie's blue eyes, the exact shade of his shirt. Rennie drifted into acting at age 28.
"I didn't know what an agent was," he chuckled, "although I believed I was an actor. It's easy to say you're an actor when you're sitting around smoking cigarettes."
Rennie has been acting for a decade and divides his time between Vancouver and L.A., where he's working on his golf swing.
Between strokes, he shot the festival film Flower & Garnet.
"I don't know how to describe it without sounding cheese ball," he demurred. "My character is the heart of 'dadness.' It's about loss, a poem about family and what's beautiful about it. It's about a kid growing up alone; it's about how a family deals with loss. My character is buried alive with his (dead) wife and is scratching at the surface. I'm a distant dad.
"I'm very proud of it."
He's guesting in the series 11th Hour in an episode directed by David Wellington and would collaborate with McDonald again in a heartbeat.
"I'd like to shadow Bruce when he works."
I decided to post this just the way it was published, even though the 'Johnny Tallent' thing is a bit annoying.
Found here.
"CAN we go somewhere quiet?" the publicist asked?
Yeah, how about Pickering?
We settled for a patio table at Bistro 990 so Callum Keith Rennie could smoke.
Rennie was on his way to the screening of Claire's Hat, the renamed mockumentary about the making of Picture Claire, the contentious Bruce McDonald feature in which he co-stars and which is exiled to video store gulag.
It was McDonald's 1995 rockumentary Hard Core Logo that catapulted Rennie into mass consciousness. He played rock 'n' roll rebel Johnny Tallent and blew audiences away. Star Gazing and friend Grant were equally infatuated with Rennie.
"Do you realize that I am the only person in this theatre not wearing a black leather jacket?" asked Grant apprehensively, chafing in his Burberry trench.
Rennie could identify with Tallent. "He's one foot out the door holding on to his youth. Growing up at 17 when the punk movement started," Rennie recalled, "it was an aggressive and angry stance that I reacted to."
He grew up in Edmonton, "bizarre big sky country, where there are eccentric people trapped by the environment. I 'get' them in a different way than the Birkenstocks in Vancouver and the big city Toronto and its arrogance and fear."
We could only nod in agreement, distracted by Rennie's blue eyes, the exact shade of his shirt. Rennie drifted into acting at age 28.
"I didn't know what an agent was," he chuckled, "although I believed I was an actor. It's easy to say you're an actor when you're sitting around smoking cigarettes."
Rennie has been acting for a decade and divides his time between Vancouver and L.A., where he's working on his golf swing.
Between strokes, he shot the festival film Flower & Garnet.
"I don't know how to describe it without sounding cheese ball," he demurred. "My character is the heart of 'dadness.' It's about loss, a poem about family and what's beautiful about it. It's about a kid growing up alone; it's about how a family deals with loss. My character is buried alive with his (dead) wife and is scratching at the surface. I'm a distant dad.
"I'm very proud of it."
He's guesting in the series 11th Hour in an episode directed by David Wellington and would collaborate with McDonald again in a heartbeat.
"I'd like to shadow Bruce when he works."
I decided to post this just the way it was published, even though the 'Johnny Tallent' thing is a bit annoying.
Found here.
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