Johnson Talks About Moondance Alexander

Don Johnson, in the Calgary area filming Moondance Alexander, spoke to the Calgary Sun regarding the film and his past role as Miami Vice detective, Sonny Crocket.

From the article:

In the meantime, he’s preparing to wrap Moondance Alexander this week. The production, which has been shooting for the past month in High River, Okotoks and around Calgary, finds Johnson — as a down-and-out ex-horse show rider who mentors a young girl named Moondance Alexander (Kay Panabaker) — far removed from the cocaine-fuelled glamour of Miami’s seedy underworld.

Which is, he adds, the idea.

“I was looking for a family picture so my young kids can see it because a lot of my stuff they can’t.”

Moondance, which producers are intending for the big screen, is being directed by Michael Damian, an ’80s teen idol, thanks to his role on The Young and Restless and co-stars Lori Loughlin (Full House) as Moondance’s mother. The size of the project — low-budget independent or large-scale Hollywood fare — “has never really mattered,” Johnson says. “For me, I just enjoy the work. Like I said, this was a sweet film my kids could see.” For the actor, the shoot marks a return to Calgary where he’s previously headlined such productions as the 1989 thriller Dead Bang and the 2003 TNT movie Word of Honor.

This past weekend, he reports, “I did my obligatory trip to the Stampede. It was great. I say obligatory because I’ve been there half a dozen times, I think, so it’s like an annual sojourn at this point. I enjoyed it. Every year it gets better and better.”

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