If we’re going to dish out subsidies, let’s use them for actual productions — not to pat ourselves on the back for having birthed Sandra Oh
The experience of watching a Hollywood movie or TV show and recognizing Toronto or Vancouver filling in for an American metropolis is a common experience.
It reminds me of watching TV as a kid and having my parents elbow me and announce “He’s Canadian!” any time Lorne Greene came on. The Made/Nous promo is voiced by Christopher Plummer, so it sounds better than when my family did it, but otherwise … The Canadian Media Fund has, therefore, spent considerable time and money to tell us that Ryan Gosling is Canadian. Though they don’t use his name, making it even odder. They do the same with an unnamed Rachel McAdams before showing us an upside-down picture of unnamed director Denis Villeneuve’s Quebec high school, followed by further enigmatic references to unnamed Canadians with Hollywood cred.
Long Shot, a Hollywood rom-com currently in theatres, features Canadian Seth Rogen playing a New York writer and South African Charlize Theron playing the U.S. secretary of state, while Swede Alexander Skarsgard plays the Canadian prime minister. The movie was filmed in Montreal.
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