7 JOURS ROY'S NEW LIFE. DECEMBER 1996

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=120 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <IMG SRC="4a369b60.gif" border=0 width="105" height="182" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> 7 JOURS ROY'S NEW LIFE. DECEMBER 1996 </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>7 JOURS INTERVIEW; 7th. DECEMBER 1996</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#9900CC" FACE="Arial" ><B> </B></FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="5db0a710.jpg" border=0 width="266" height="369" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="5dd51710.jpg" border=0 width="337" height="369" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>My New Lifestyle - I thirst for clarity. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Normally, lifestyle changes develop gradually, and this is so for the handsome actor with the Adriatic-blue eyes. He is settling down - the child Roy has grown up. As a matter of fact, this wild rover has exchanged an artificial heaven for the sky above his new 54 acre estate. Exclusively, 7 Jours introduces the new Roy</B></div> <div> <B>Dupuis. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>"I haven’t settled down," he says. "It’s not that. It’s just that I have decided to live in complete clarity." He hastens to add, "This choice follows a multitude of changes which are not obvious in the short term. It’s like a man who plants trees. Over a period of time they flower and bear fruit." </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>What is certain is that Roy’s meals will henceforth be free of wine, alcohol or other intoxicating substances. "I have chosen never again to desensitise myself in any way whatsoever, for any reason whatsoever. Ever." </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The city Roy has given way to Roy of the countryside. There, in his delightful newly purchased stone farmhouse dating back to 1840,  situated an hour from Montreal, he is building a nest with the woman in his life …. in preparation for a stream of kids to come along? </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>"The house is there, the woman is there, and the inclination is there.   We’re thinking about it. Especially as my friends are beginning to have children. When the time is right …. perhaps!" </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Anyway, Roy Dupuis is radiant these days. With a look straight out of Jesus Christ Superstar, he is outgoing, unselfish, naturally charming, with three important film projects in the bag, and a row of DIY manuals on the shelf. "I feel that the house will become my hobby. I have a carpenter here and I’m learning …. I intend to find </B></div> <div> <B>out about plumbing and electrics. It’s important to do something tangible, like painting or sanding - and to see the results right away.  I want to have fun with my house." </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Can you imagine this confirmed rent-payer, this devotee of the box-like apartments of central Montreal, repointing his dining room wall?   "It’s a great way to wind down. Working on a piece of furniture, walking </B></div> <div> <B>on your land is really extraordinary. It’s giving me indescribable feelings at the moment, and I think it’s going to become even more fun." </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Roy, what has precipitated all these transformations? </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>It’s all about awareness. My choice for complete sobriety has been influenced by my reading, by events, by my girlfriend, by my parents and by the situation I find myself in. Being well known and watched a lot of the time makes you scrutinise yourself and become more aware. Regarding the house purchase, I looked </B></div> <div> <B>around for six years without coming to a decision. Then one day in Los Angeles, where it was taking me an hour by car to go anywhere in town, it came to me in a flash. I was going to buy a house in the country. We are spoiled here. After an hour in the car you’re in the middle of the countryside. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>But the alcohol and the rest of the stuff you can get high on, is that really all over? </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>It’s over! I do other things to get high. When things aren’t going well, instead of taking a drink I confront the problem. That’s what I mean by living in clarity. In a way it makes things less complicated.  You think that your problems will disappear if you seek oblivion when things are going badly, but they just keep coming back. </B></div> <div> <B>Better to face them head on. I would also get wasted trying to find happiness. Why hang around waiting to feel good? Getting smashed kind of speeds up the process." </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Does psychotherapy help? </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>It’s a tool. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>And is going from a state of oblivion to one of clarity a painful process? </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>To kill something of yourself is always painful. When I moved from the town to the country it was to go to my first home of my own. I wanted to do my own packing. I hadn’t done that in ten years. As I was putting my belongings into boxes I watched the last ten years of my life pass before me. I threw out a lot of things and that felt bad. My immature, instinctual side is in check now, but taking the leap from operating on this basic level to becoming a more aware human being is a melancholy experience. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>And how! </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>It’s weird. I always said I was going to die at the age of 33. This year I was 33 and in a way the child in me died then. I realised this while doing my packing and it was a distressing lesson. I have finally decided to become a man. But then, like most men of my age, I’m trying to discover what being a man really is. These days it’s not that clear. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Women have upset the apple cart …. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Well… the chivalrous side of man is scoffed at, for good reasons I’ll admit. We are at a point where the warrior part of men’s personalities, the conquering instinct, has to be expressed in other ways. We need to transfer this energy elsewhere, into creativity for example. Using a warrior’s intuition, the man who is a builder can succeed in constructing a peace, in building non-adversarial relationships between men and women, in working on the basis of freedom and trust. Competition has been a huge problem in all societies since the beginning of humanity, because competition leads to strife. There has never been a really immense revolution in the history of mankind. And so long as we aren’t able to achieve this, humanity will never progress to adulthood. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>A Herculean task ….. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Yes, but we are aware of that. We know about it, we just need to do something about it. It’s not a question of becoming a New Man, it’s about becoming non-competitive. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Do you really think so? </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>I have been looked after well enough by the people around me to understand this. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>How do you enjoy yourself these days? </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>When I’m having my coffee in the morning watching the birds,  when I’m talking with my girlfriend or my friends, when I have people round for a meal, I am enjoying myself. And I have many more visitors in the country than I had when I lived in town. I like that. Our door is always open to my friends. A friend would never be an inconvenience. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>No? </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Not if it was a friend, that’s to say someone who knows me.   And if they knew me they would know when to leave. (big laugh) </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>How do you spend time with your friends? </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Always doing something active. We do things together -playing golf, preparing meals, inventing things and trying them out. I like it when there is some project which unites us. Just chatting doesn’t interest me for long. Especially now, there is always something for my friends and me to do around the house. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>And your family? </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>With my family there is no alternative but to be close. Even if not physically, you can feel the effects across the distance between us. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>What do you think of marriage? </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>I don’t believe in it. It’s a lie. You can swear an oath and say "I will never change" but time causes things to evolve. What starts off as only quartz in the beginning alters and gets transformed more and more. It’s a natural progression. Trying to halt it, to stop things happening goes against the laws of nature, it’s contrary to the way things are. In any case, what is marriage these days? It’s an economic arrangement. It’s crazy to base a loving relationship on financial grounds. An oath is all very well, but it’s not for me. I firmly believe that having children can make a relationship last longer.  But I’d like to think that we’ll take these things as they come. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>You seem to be interested in science? </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Before becoming an actor I was in the pure sciences. I loved chemistry, physics, studying a subject, finding the reasons why.  And these days I’m coming back to that. I’m interested in astronomy, the stars, computers, the Internet. I would love to know what happens to the soul before life, after death, in the hereafter. I read Stephen Hawking and Hubert Reeves. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>If you asked Roy Dupuis tomorrow morning to come up with a completely new screenplay, he would no doubt be caught on the hop, because his dream is to make a film about ‘something that has never been seen before’. "I regularly play around with different ideas,  but I haven’t found it yet," he smiles, consoling himself with the words of Albert Einstein, the eminent physicist and mathematician.  "Everything that you can imagine has been done by someone else."  And other new ventures on the horizon? Roy Dupuis has made two </B></div> <div> <B>feature films this summer (J’en Suis and Hemoglobin) and is getting ready to leave Montreal to play a new character in an American series based on the film Nikita by Luc Besson. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>"But I’m going to come back to my land every weekend, that’s for sure," he promises, having unfortunately had to turn down a fourth fantastic offer because of a clash of timetables.</B></div> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="626" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 79 WIDTH="622"><bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>       <IMG SRC="19016130.jpg" border=0 width="278" height="19" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="19016130.jpg" border=0 width="278" height="19" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#9900FF" FACE="times" ><B>                LIFE BEFORE MICHAEL **Miscelaneous Intel about RD**</B></FONT><B>                        </B><A HREF="id47.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="LIFE BEFORE MICHAEL "><U><B><IMG SRC="1923c1e0.gif" border=0 width="60" height="30" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>