Soundwave
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- Mar 1, 2007
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Some people like to fulfill their own dreams and goals.
It's not the 80s or even the 2000s anymore, the whole "go to LA to become a movie star" thing is kind of over these days. Which actually I kind of feel bad for a lot of the Canadians that are going down there hoping to make it, it's never gonna happen.
If you're not really booking big movies or shows by the time you're 25, a break out for the very, very few open spots there might be for a "new break out actor star" is almost impossible these days.
Used to be Hollywood was looking for stars and sold movies/TV shows on the back of a star name, but that has evaporated into fantasy franchise properties being the be all/end all and the age of the movie star is dwindling.
In today's Hollywood I don't even know if a Mike Myers or Jim Carrey would be given movie vehicles like Ace Ventura or Wayne's World to really break out with, those movies probably don't even get greenlit for a theater release today (straight to Netflix as the best case scenario and how many star actors has Netflix launched? Zilch, they're disposable movies everyone forgets immediately).
The "sexy Canadian girl" niche that existed in the 90s also has sorta gone kaput, Pamela Anderson, Natasha Henstridge (Species), Tricia Helfer (Battlestar Galactica), Elisha Cuthbert (Girl Next Door) were able to get some traction on TV/movies, but it was really pushed by the magazine market like Playboy or Maxim magazine which doesn't even exist (not in the same way) anymore.
The movies Leon's girlfriend books (the Hallmark movies) aren't even filmed in LA. They actually shoot mostly in Canada to save costs and because the Canadian government gives them grants/incentives.
Also big, big difference between a Canadian girl, as she is, and someone born in the US. For an American, no matter what, the US will always be home and Canada is always kind of a friendly but still "bizarro land". People raised in Canada though don't have that same viewpoint or feeling.
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