The pair sits down with The Globe and Mail ahead of a momentous season to discuss the roots of their creative dynamics
The dinner table was crowded with hungry playwrights, the shelves stacked with books, her weekends consumed with wandering behind curtains and prying open dressing-room doors. Which is what happens when your father, Benedict Campbell, is one of the most acclaimed Canadian stage actors of his generation and your mother, Jackie Maxwell, is the, a game-changer who has bent such institutions as the National Arts Centre and the Shaw Festival to her innovative visions.
Yet it was never assumed that Deragh or her younger sibling, Lou, would go on to live a life devoted to the arts. Just the opposite. “We weren’t at all going, “You have to be in theatre” – in fact, we never talked about it in a career kind of way,” recalls Maxwell. “Even when Deragh called me and told me that she was going to be in a movie, I was like, ‘What?’”, would lead Campbell along the path to becoming one of the most captivating screen performers of her generation, her raw and stirring work starring in Kazik Radwanski’s 2019′s.
At the same time, Maxwell is directing two of the most eagerly anticipated stage productions of the fall: the Canadian premieres of Annie Baker’sAhead of the family’s momentous season, Maxwell and Campbell sat down with The Globe and Mail at the Coal Mine to discuss – mostly with each other – their mother-daughter dominance of contemporary Canadian culture.It was omnipresent. Ben and I moved around a lot at the beginning.
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