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( I loved that, a smallish, great film. Ben Kingsley is great playing a person you never want to spend any time around, a needy psychopath )

( No, Rennie is officially the coolest actor in Canada because he's going to be in Slap Shot II. Yes, you read that right. A sequel to the greatest. Hockey film. Of. All. Time. )

( Rennie popped up on screen twice during last week's Local Heroes International Film Festival, appearing in Memento and co-starring with Molly Parker in Lynne Stopkewich's Suspicious River. We grabbed Rennie for a minute and subjected him to our 20 questions. )

( Oh yes, the golf. Rennie got hooked on the game during a visit to his grad student brother in Europe last May. 'I really would prefer to golf most of the time now.' )

The Out-Of-Towner
In his diary on the making of the feature film Flower and Garnet, Vancouver actor Callum Keith Rennie looks back on the 25 day shoot, most of which took place in the small B.C. town of Ashcroft.


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This article has already been posted in transcript form by c_regalis, but I thought some folks might appreciate scans of the magazine article itself.

( Rennie appears to have outgrown his rebel phase; or maybe he has just outlasted it because in its truest form, a rebel goes out in flames - and Rennie is still here. )

( His characters are in the next room or outside waiting in a car. He doesn't steal films; he causes the camera to turn in his direction. He induces the audience to attend when he is on screen. )