And I can’t for the life of me understand why women would have long hair.”. He acted as an executive producer during the Due South’s final season. Having resisted previous attempts to bring him to Hollywood, Gross was impressed with the initial pitch and had hoped it would maintain both the complexity of John Updike’s 1984 novel, The Witches of Eastwick, and edge of the 1987 film version starring Jack Nicholson. I remember Clint Eastwood talking about 'Unforgiven'. Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 30 July 2019 Comments may take up to an hour for moderation before appearing on the site. He went down in 1990 to discuss doing a CBS western series, which he eventually decided not to do. It’s funny that a tool like that can be so resonant of so many different things. Within the military, a sniper would have little knowledge of what an intelligence officer is doing and [vice versa]. Inquiring minds want to know: is it a wig or hair extensions for Paul Gross? It's intriguing that the war continued even after both sides recognized it was hopeless. It includes a run as Hamlet at the Stratford Festival in 2000. It’s really something that Hollywood invented.”. By continuing to use our site, you agree to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Gross is such an Eastwood fan, especially of High Plains Drifter, his touchstone for Gunless, that he unconsciously lowered his voice in the film to sound more like Clint. His name was removed from the script after arbitration by the Writer’s Guild of America. Maybe you could call Gunless the first Canadian spaghetti western? Two years ago, I visited the Sahara. Inquiring minds want to know: is it a wig or hair extensions for Paul Gross? There was an error, please provide a valid email address. FirstShowing.net That 2011 production of Private Lives opposite Kim Cattrall was a huge hit when it opened in Toronto, but died a quick death on Broadway a few months later. It was a lot easier on the hindquarters going by horseback every day than pounding bumpy roads on an SUV. Everyone involved with Gunless knew what they were doing, unlike the experience Gross had last year making The Witches of Eastwick, a TV series based on the 1980s Jack Nicholson comedy about a satanic satyr in a small U.S. town. The film itself was shot in Winnipeg and Jordan, but some of that initial footage will be interspersed into the narrative of the film, giving it a “hyper real” feel, Gross says. He was finally lured to American TV in 2009 to play the devilish Darryl Van Horne in ABC’s short-lived Eastwick. “Our base camp was quite a ways away from the set, so I would get dressed and then get on a horse and I’d ride to work — with my gun!” he says, laughing. Gunless is all in jest, but the motivation for making it is a serious love of westerns, on the part of both writer/director William Phillips (Foolproof) and Gross. [His grandfather's confession that he cold-bloodedly killed a young German soldier led to Gross's fascination with the horror of Passchendaele] It was sort of like a hinge, and a door swung open at that moment onto a life of consequence or adulthood. To borrow a line from the movie: there is no winning-there’s just an end state laid down by foreign policy. So you kind of reinvent yourself to fit into that new environment. “I enjoyed doing (Eastwick) because it was just playing the devil. [Of the 12 years he worked on the 'Passchendaele" screenplay] It was always sort of special. “The phone line was terrible and I thought it was someone asking me to be on the jury for the Governor General’s Awards and I said ‘I’m too busy I won’t be able to do that’ and just hung up,” says Gross, in an interview from his home in Toronto. There was nobody there to dye my hair. 365 Bloor Street East, Toronto, Ontario, M4W 3L4. “It’s kind of deadpan, it’s a little bit subterranean. Was it important to show that quality? The show was critically panned, never found an audience and the series was subsequently cancelled. Paul was introduced to acting in his early teens, while the Gross family was in Washington. tap here to see other videos from our team. While Gross hasn’t completely given up on La La Land, he admits it’s not a place he is comfortable in. | It went on to become an infamous $220-million bomb, but that was long after Gross left the project. The idea that the Wild West of the United States didn’t have any law is completely bogus. We have enabled email notifications—you will now receive an email if you receive a reply to your comment, there is an update to a comment thread you follow or if a user you follow comments. But it was always there. That’s a real Colt .45 he’s packing, by the way, and it really is him doing the fancy moves with it. If there is a prevailing theme, it’s that his triple-threat talents as a writer, director and actor have led to projects that require a significant investment of time and energy, which takes away from any time he might spend plotting career advancement. Paul Gross is the elder of two brothers. He doesn’t remember a specific epiphany that convinced him he wanted to act, but says his somewhat rootless childhood may have played a role. “It’s my home, it’s where I feel most aligned to,” Gross says. There were so many outtakes, probably, where the gun went flying!”. He was an Army brat; his father, Bob Gross, was a Tank Commander in the Canadian Army. That possibly leads you to imagine that acting makes sense because you've developed a flair for becoming somebody else. Would you be willing to accept the Order of Canada?’ ”. https://www.readersdigest.ca/culture/paul-gross-rd-interview TVSeriesFinale And when times get tough, you can always pull out your Mountie costume from Due South. Actor and director Paul Gross talks Canadian talent, going grey and his new war movie, Hyena Road. He took 50 hours of footage by going out on foot patrols in the Horn of Panjwaii with a camera crew. “It’s odd that the two are coinciding and it always seems faintly preposterous to me because I don’t really ever think of myself in terms of a career,” he says. Gross Misconduct: The Life of Brian Spencer. | You feel it a little bit when you’re riding up to the set.”. [My hair] has been like this for almost 30 years, but I always dyed it. “I’ve thought about that a fair bit,” Gross says. |  I think respect is the most important thing-from respect comes patience. I tried to convey the idea that nobody really knows what’s going on. He took 50 hours of footage by going out on foot patrols in the Horn of Panjwaii with a camera crew. What Gross is interested in at this moment is Hyena Road, a film about Canadian snipers and intelligence officers in Afghanistan. Instead of getting more courageous, they just seem to be doing what they’ve been doing, which is what led them off the cliff in the first place.”.

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