VIDEO INTERVIEW: Olympia Dukakis on playing Stella
ON SCREEN / Meet Cloudburst director Thom Fitzgerald
Xtra staff / National / Wednesday, November 07, 2012
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Cloudburst, directed by Canadian Thom Fitzgerald (The Hanging Garden,) is screening at The Mayfair after a long and winding road on the festival circuit. 
 
The film is about two older lesbians making a break from a nursing home in the US to go to Canada, where they want to get married. It stars Olympia Dukakis in the lead role of Stella.
 
“Thom [Fitzgerald] says [the role of Stella] came from me,” Dukakis says. “He says that this rebellious combative person -- I have a stretch of that in me."
 
She says that even though lead roles for women-of-a-certain are few she doesn’t feel slighted. She points out that the biggest market for film is young men.
 
“It’s not morality -- it’s a market thing,” she says.
 
Below is a video interview with Dukakis done earlier this year. Also interviewed are director Fitzgerald and actor Ryan Doucette.
 
 
 

 

Cloudburst
Friday, March 8 - Sunday March, 10
The Mayfair Theatre
1074 Bank St.

Genie-Award-winning Director Thom Fitzgerald will attend the Saturday, March 9th screening. 


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