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sweats and black jacket with the Sundance logo on the back.
MG- ".....most of my most appealing work comes out of Canada and out of Toronto specifically." MG walking down the street and heading into the Ontario School of (something illegible but presumably, dance) MG- "This is the inaugural year for the centre for Indigenous Theatre, it's a training program for Aboriginal actors....and I was hired by the artistic director, Carol Greyeyes, to teach the actors movement and dance." --- sequence of MG leading a dance class. ----subtitles running underneath which read, "...drives from Cleveland each week ....to teach this class." MG- "....and when you're training and talking to students ....I want to convey my love and passion for it. I want to be tough on them ....but ....you want to have a chance to say what, maybe, didn't get said to you when you were a student." |
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| ----insert--- scene from Big
Bear ..." I am Wandering Spirit...."
----subtitles read, "Recently shot the film Big Bear....in his native Saskatchewan." MG (now outside framed against a cityscape) - " well, coming from the prairies is, I think, a unique perspective in Canada and being there is a ...., it's a cliché to say there's no place like home but, in fact, there's no place like Saskatchewan. I think if you come from, like, BC, if you come from Ontario your concept of beauty is different when you come from Saskatchewan, come from the prairies, skies ....that's the benchmark of beauty." Bodiless voice- "Do you want to go for lunch?" MG- "Yeah, let's eat, let's eat." Goes into Mr. Sub. MG (to assistant)- " I want a ham and cheese ....on brown bread." Now seated eating lunch (looks like he has a coke too... and not a diet coke I might add). MG- "The transition for me from dance into acting was, maybe, not as hard as some people might have thought it would have been." |
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| ---Several photographs
of a rather young MG at The National Ballet School. ---subtitles read ...."The
first male Native Canadian ....accepted at The National Ballet School."
MG- "...so I had the method with which to approach acting ingrained in me all my dance years and I've always said dancing is acting except you can't use your voice. So in many ways it's harder, has to be more subtle, or bigger, or more athletic." ---Insert--- clip from Dance Me Outside .... Illeanna and Gooch discussing Gooch's kitchen requirements. MG- " Dance me Outside, I worked on that in 1993, that was one of my best roles ....I've ever had and the film turned out so beautiful, ...was at the Sundance Film Festival....." ----Insert--- clip of Adam Beach, Tamara Podemski, et al. arriving at the festival (Adam complaining, "I got my fingers smashed in the door..." and showing same to the camera) ---Subtitles -"the film won two Genies" MG continuing - ".... the Toronto International Film Festival. Everywhere I go ....in Indian country (gives little sideways glance) people will just walk up to me, people I don't even know and go, 'You're Gooch, you're Gooch!' I'm like yeah, yeah." |
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| ---Behind the scenes clip
of DMO, MG getting directions and jovially turning round to smack Adam
Beach, who is behind him with a pool cue.
MG continuing- ".... they say, 'I love that movie, I've watched it thirty times!' ...so that's a huge compliment, a huge compliment that people are interested in the work that way." ----Clip from Smoke Signals -the basketball scene with Adam beach. MG- "Because the films are about my culture ....my own people write to me and when I meet them they are, like, 'You did us proud,' so that's a great...you know that's all the feedback I need, and I'll get a chance to do other roles but right now I'm more than happy to have had that chance..." FIN
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Marnie & Sonja, 2003
