Brioux also interviews Oliva Cheng, an Edmontonian who is a reporter and journalist, who also acts in Broken Trail:"Alberta is OK."
That's Robert Duvall's take on Canada, never his favourite place to work.
The Academy Award-winning actor was at the TV critics press tour Wednesday to promote the U.S. cable feature Broken Trail, a four-hour, two night western directed by Walter Hill and co-starring Sideways star Thomas Haden Church. It's coming to one of the Corus-owned stations in Canada, probably in June.
A native Californian, Duvall has been blunt in the past about runaway film and TV production. Shooting this movie seems to have softened his stand somewhat. "I like Alberta more than the rest of Canada," he told a conference room full of mostly U.S. critics. "They're more like us. Calgary, Alberta, is more like Texas without the accent, really."
Duvall, who turned 75 last week, comes by his tough talk naturally - he's a direct descendant of Confederate general Robert E. Lee. In the past, he's dismissed Canadian actors as short on talent.
"I eat my words when I said there weren't good actors there," he declared Wednesday. "But you have to look for them because the system keeps showing you the same ones over and over again.""
Read the full article at this link.She's one of four Chinese-Canadian actresses who co-star in the film as young women who have been sold into prostitution. Hardened cowboys Print Ritter (Duvall) and his nephew Tom Harte (Church) come upon them in the middle of a 1,000-mile horse drive and attempt to set them free.
"It was so good to be around such energy," Duvall said of Cheng and his young Canadian co-stars.
Known for her hip-hop and culture reports, Cheng said she offered to teach Duvall some hip-hop moves if he'd teach her to tango. (She was a fan of his 2001 film Assassination Tango). "And he goes, 'What the hell's a hip-hop?' " says Cheng, who managed to show him a few arm roll moves.
Duvall says he never really got it, but joked that "she wasn't very good at the tango, either."
Cheng said working with Duvall was intimidating at first, but not for long. "In the movie, he's a surrogate father to us, and in real life he made a real effort to get to know us. He was so kind and generous and immediately put us at ease.
Cheng also has features an interview with Duvall on her official website.
Photo of Robert Duvall from the film Open Range. © 2003 Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc.
Olivia Cheng photo courtesy of OliviaCheng.com.
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