National Post Interview with Roy Dupuis

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <IMG SRC="35cc9950.jpg" border=0 width="201" height="149" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <IMG SRC="35ebe8d0.gif" border=0 width="190" height="141" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> National Post Interview with Roy Dupuis</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>    <IMG SRC="35af7790.jpg" border=0 width="503" height="377" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" >     </FONT><B>  Canadian</B><B> </B><B>National Post Interview with Roy Dupuis</B><B>    </B></div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>            <IMG SRC="346a3140.gif" border=0 width="419" height="20" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Saturday April 8, 2000</B></div> <div> <B>National Post</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Roy Dupuis - The actor who plays the mysterious, seductive Michael on Nikita talks to Jane L. Thompson about not getting married and home renovation.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>When you get angry or passionate, do you immediately speak in French?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>No, I rarely lose it in any way. I've never really lost it, yet. I try to be controlled and logical, reasonable. You have to study the situation from the outside, pull yourself out of it; most of the time it's nothing. I'm not about to die because I'm not eating well. So it can be dealt with in another way.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Do you get weird fan mail?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Sometimes it's weird, sometimes it's great. Sometimes there's amazing stuff. They tell me their life stories, and it's interesting. There are movies in there. More women than men write, for sure. But, actually, I think more women write fan mail, even to Peta [Wilson], or other actresses I know.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>What makes a woman sexy?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>That's personal, first of all. For me, what makes a woman sexy, at first, of course, is the exterior appearance; for me, her eyes mostly, hands. And what really makes a woman sexy for me is originality and intelligence. That turns me on.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Are you married?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>No, I don't believe in marriage. I don't get how you can say I'll be there all my life, and base a love relationship on that. I think it's a lie, that's all. Right now, the woman I'm with thinks pretty much the same way that I do. And, pretty much with all the women that I've been with, marriage as never a concern. For me, making children is like marriage. Just to choose or decide to have a child with this woman, it's a statement that "I think I could be there for a while at least, and it will happen." I'd like it to.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>You're renovating your farmhouse in Quebec?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>That's mostly what I do in the summer, when I'm off the show. It's an 1840 farmhouse. I've taken off most of the gyproc that was in the kitchen and found it was plaster before. So I found the original recipe and redid the plaster inside. I built a porch in the front garden, and I integrated a round patio. It's all cedar and turnposts and balconies, and a copper roof. I'm pretty proud of it. It's the first thing I've really built.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Would you ever move to LA?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>No, this house took me six years to find. This house is also... a dream. I want it to stay in the family; if I have children... so they know where they come from and they have the land, a contact to the earth. I find it very important.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>You're writing a film. Is it for a Quebec audience?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>No, for me. I don't put a border on what I'm writing. Of course, I think the best way to be international is to be yourself; that's what interests people - differences, other ways of seeing.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>What do you do with your down time?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>I read, I write, I get some CD-Roms and check out historical things, and sailing information. I also go on the Internet. Now, I want to redo my bathroom, so I'm going through every bath I can find. I like those old ceramic ones. I've got a spa, a hot tub, out in the middle of a hayfield. We go in there, and then dive in the snow.</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="346a3140.gif" border=0 width="419" height="20" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="ROY DUPUIS ARTICLES"><U><IMG SRC="3563d240.gif" border=0 width="61" height="36" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A>                                                                          <A HREF="id73.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="VERONICA"><U><IMG SRC="3473c230.gif" border=0 width="60" height="35" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A>                    </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>