By Mark Schadenberg
I
still remember the TV episode where his hand was bleeding. Was it a sign?
Certainly his performance was a sign of a strong acting future.
Kevin
Zegers of Woodstock has starred or has certainly been a featured important
supporting role in more than 20 movies. Zegers has been on a movie set with a
unicorn, a horse, several times with a basketball-playing dog, and a
hockey-player monkey.
You quickly respect his career, however, when you look at
the long list of credits (in random order): Air Bud (three times as Josh Framm),
Treasure Island, Transamerica, Virginia’s Run (I have this movie on VHS if you want to borrow it), Jane Austen Book Club, It’s A
Boy Girl Thing, and Dawn Of The Dead. The Cannes Film Festival recognized his role
opposite Felicity Huffman in Transamerica.
An
impressive list of TV appearances includes the recent Gossip Girl and the
not-so-recent ensemble-cast nighttime-soap Titans which was an Aaron Spelling NBC-Network
effort which lasted for about a dozen episodes.
Zegers
– now 28 -- always seemed to keep the small-city personality, especially when I
would talk to him at (the former) St. Rita’s church in Woodstock. I haven't chatted with him in likely 10 years, but the admiration continues for someone who is dedicated to a difficult craft.
Acting is art, but one also requires a natural gene, and Zegers has it.
An
honest statement from me -- and my many live TV credits -- can always be, broadcasting and media is not easy.
Tomorrow,
Kevin’s latest movie hits the big screen: The Colony, which he stars alongside Laurence
Fishburne and Bill Paxton. The storyline is apparently about a group of people
who must survive as the next ice age approaches. (Sun Media story: http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/2013/04/25/20769371.html).
Apparently
much of the set was built inside an airport hangar in North Bay and location shoots
included a retired NORAD deep-underground bunker.
Another
Sun Media (Toronto Sun) story quotes Kevin Zegers about The Colony and his
latest career efforts. (See: http://www.torontosun.com/2013/04/23/kevin-zegers-tackles-darker-material-with-the-colony)
Zegers
recently had a frank and honest discussion on the CBC TV show hosted by George
Stroumboulopoulos (http://www.cbc.ca/strombo/mobile-video/guest-interview/kevin-zegers-1.html).
There’s
many facets to re-creating yourself into a character. Scripts, wringing hands,
rehearsals, standing around and waiting and waiting, memorizing director cues, performing
the same scene over and over, knowing where the ‘x’ is on the floor, and of course
performing the same scene over and over to cover all the angles. A dynamic
career in acting is certainly a difficult career choice, and not all about
smiles and handshakes.
As
a lifetime Woodstock media person, here’s a sincere congratulations to Kevin
Zegers as another full-length picture hits the screens. I’ll be there with my
large popcorn.
By
the way, the stigmata on his hand was the X-Files TV episode way back in 1995
opposite David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson.
Proud to be from Woodstock
Proud to promote Woodstock
Mark
Schadenberg
Sales
Representative
Royal
LePage Triland Realty
757 Dundas
St, Woodstock
(519) 537-1553,
cell or text
Email:
mschadenberg@rogers.com
Twitter:
markroyallepage
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