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 W. Hurt as American Actor in Quebec It will be necessary to wait until the 14th episode of River Des Jérémie to finally see William Hurt. River Des Jérémie tv-servies that began september, the 11th at 20h on Radio-Canada provoked an unused history, all the same during the filming. William Hurt asked to play there, and author Jean-Paul Le Bourhis wrote him a role. Therefore, William Hurt shot the movie Varian's War in Montreal. In the team, there was the daughter-in-law of Le Bourhis. The two got on well. William Hurt is curious of the Québecois reality. He speaks French, as the former husband of Sandrine Bonnaire. He prepered to speak in the tv-series. He offered his services, and not to the tariffs of Hollywood. He began to correspond by e-mail with M. Le Bourhis, who first proposed him a role of draft-dodger, these Americans who took refuge in Canada to escape the military draft during the war of Vietnam. Finally the author and the actor got along on Gad. Nearly God, or God. A poet of which the woman, played by Genevieve Rioux, is deaf and mute. Like in Children of a Lesser God. |
William Hurt
played in three episodes. Interesting detail: Le Bourhis wanted it sailing on a pontoon.
"But
that was too expensive. Then William Hurt offered to pay for the pontoon
of his pocket. But we did it without the pontoon." End of the
fairy tale. Now go by River des Jérémies, this tv-series takes place
somewhere between Hull and the Témiscamingue, in a corner of Quebec where
the song country triumphs.
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