Was the director ever nervous about giving notes to the veteran actor? Say, for example, in the scene when Cas gets high on drugs? Dreyfuss spent two and a half hours on the phone to Priestley before he agreed to sign on. Tatiana Maslany's Dylan is his foil the ultimate Manic Pixie Dream Girl – the archetypal kooky young spirit who comes along for the ride. It took a long time to get the movie to a place where I didn't lose the audience in the first act."Īn odd-couple road movie, the film stars Richard Dreyfuss as Cas, a cantankerous old coot with an inoperable tumour who sets off for his cabin for a last hurrah. I struggled when it was a script and I struggled with it after I shot it and when I was editing for months. "I won't lie to you, I struggled with the set up and I struggled with the first act. He's proud of his first feature film but it's clear that its making was not without anxieties. "I've been directing for 20-plus years," he explains, reeling off multiple TV credits bookended with his two biggest hits: Beverly Hills 90210 and HBO Canada's Call Me Fitz. Older, stockier, but still handsome, Priestley handles my ungainly opener with good grace and conversation takes a smoother turn to Cas & Dylan.
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