It's been twenty years since grade-school basketball Air Bud flick
By Mark Schadenberg
He certainly has grown up and is far
beyond the past days of playing basketball on-screen with a Golden Lab.
Yesterday – before the debut of the
new Kevin Zegers TV show Gracepoint on FOX and Global – I uttered a
few spoilers on Facebook. These plotline revealing moments were not
about the new intriguing who-done-it 60-minute series, but rather
Kevin's 2013 movie The Colony.
In The Colony, Kevin plays one of the
presumed last remaining citizens of Earth, which is a group of people
living under ground and rationing any food (They have seeds to
maintain a greenhouse) they have and sadly disposing of fellow colony
members at they get sick as they don't want disease to spread. The
premise also includes the fact the world has become absolutely
frozen. There's a lot more to the movie and you can rent it for free
at the Woodstock Public Library. As the storyline progresses we learn
there is another group of living humans in a separate below-ground
cavern a few miles away, and a journey over a bridge to visit this
society is obviously integral to the story as Zegers, Bill Paxton
(Twister, Titanic, Simple Plan and Spy Kids) and Laurence Fishburne
(The Matrix, Hoodlum and TV's CSI) make the sojourn through blinding
snow. I won't include the spoilers again.
The previous blog I wrote about Kevin
Zegers was in April of 2013 (One can scroll back to find it easily)
with the release of The Colony.
Why do I write about him? Simple. I
promote everything Woodstock and in the day-and-age of reality TV
shows flooding the airwaves, it's remarkable that the Woodstock
actor continues to earn many good roles in both TV and movies.
Zegers is now 30 years old – having
celebrated a birthday recently on Sept. 19.
Last night (Thursday, Oct 2), his new
show Gracepoint debuted on Fox and it plans on being an intriguing
week-to-week developing of a murder mystery as a 12-year-old boy is
found dead on the beach – below a cliff – in a small California
town somewhere between San Francisco and the Oregon border. Zegers
plays a reporter at the local newspaper who (somewhat) inadvertently
reveals the name of the deceased on his Twitter account after the
boy's sister is seen on the beach dropping off a stuffed toy as a
memorial. The show appears to have many layers, including an
investigating female cop being overlooked for a promotion when the
town hires a more-experienced law enforcer. The female cop has a son
the same age as the dead boy – and the two were best friends. The
cop's son certainly knows something about what happened, but others
could hypothetically be involved.
The show – as you will see by reading
the link below – is a re-make of a British program.
As for Zegers, his TV credits go way
back to about 1993 and an episode of Street Legal.
Kevin's movie characters begin around that
same time with a Michael J Fox picture called Life With Mikey (Also
with the interesting ensemble of Nathan Lane, Victor Garber and Cyndi
Lauper) so he's been busy memorizing lines and developing his acting
craft for more than 20 years.
Everyone knows Zegers from the Air Bud
movies and his character Josh Framm. It's truly hard to believe it's
the same person as Kevin has grew up in the public's eyes. Kevin is
no longer playing basketball, soccer or baseball with a Golden Lab,
or the Steven Westover hockey player who skated with a monkey in Most
Valuable Primate (MVP).
The long list of movies now include
Virginia's Run, Treasure Island, Dawn Of The Dead, Wrong Turn, It's a
Boy Girl Thing, The Jane Austen Book Club, Transamerica, and at least
a dozen more. At the Cannes Film Festival, he won an acting award in
the break-through category for the 2005 release Transamerica (He
certainly was NOT an acting rookie, so that award is puzzling), while
the other co-star Felicity Huffman won a Golden Globe for best
actress.
A future release is a thriller called
The Curse Of Downers Grove where he will star along with Tom Arnold
and Helen Slater.
Gaining his countless small TV parts accounts for un-ending applications, casting calls, resumes,
rehearsals, readings, and lots of hustling by both the actor and
agent, but Kevin has had many network TV appearances.
I think many in Woodstock still recall
the TV show The X-Files back in 1995 (Wow! 19 years ago) where Zegers
played a 12-year-old boy with a strange bleeding palm or a stigmata.
I wasn't a regular viewer of the series but Scully and Mulder were
certainly perplexed by the possible religious connotations.
Zegers had a featured role on the
short-lived Aaron Spelling NBC show Titans (Yasmine Bleeth and Jack
Wagner; a poorly written night-time soap serial), Gossip Girl,
Smallville and Titanic: Blood & Steel, plus anciently on Canadian
fare Street Legal, Traders and Avonlea.
Here's my big congratulations to Kevin
Zegers and my admiration for him and his continued determination to
carve out a career as an actor. Kevin – you are making everyone in
Woodstock very proud.
I do include some links below which
delve more into Kevin's personal life, including his marriage to
agent Jaime Feld, and an interview he does on the CBC show George. I
could discuss excerpts from the interview, but you can discover
(likely re-discover as it's been reported previously) them with a
quick watch.
LINKS:
GRACEPIOINT:
TWITTER:
@kevinzegers
Proud to call Woodstock my home !
Mark
Schadenberg, Sales
Representative
Senior
Real Estate Specialist (SRES designation)
Royal
LePage Triland Realty
757
Dundas St, Woodstock
(519)
537-1553, cell or text
Email:
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