Richard Gere says he contemplated coming to Canada to avoid being sent to the Vietnam War
The actor plays a draft dodger in Paul Schrader’s film “Oh Canada,” and like his character, was a conscientious objector as a young man, he tells a group of journalists at the Cannes Film Festival a day after its premiere.But instead of fleeing to Canada as his character does, he moved to the U.S. West Coast.
In the film, Leonard is feted at a Montreal film festival and touted as a winner of Genie and Gemini awards — precursors to the Canadian Screen Awards which combined the film and television prizes. The movie, an examination of where the truth lies in documentary filmmaking and memory, is largely set and steeped in Canadiana, but it wasn’t shot north of the border.“We did it right where we all lived so we didn’t have to pay per diems.”
Elordi did not attend the Cannes premiere for “Oh, Canada,” because he was actually in Canada to shoot Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein.” Toronto fans have taken to social media in recent weeks to share sightings of the “Euphoria” star. “These people don’t have, really, skin in the game. They’re not going to get drafted. a handful of them are Palestinian,” he says.
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