Canadian Press Toronto Bleeders Interview

<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"> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="4c770c20.gif" border=0 width="112" height="194" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> Canadian Press Toronto Bleeders Interview </div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="4c2bf1e0.jpg" border=0 width="191" height="286" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="2c9b61b0.jpg" border=0 width="182" height="283" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="4c443dc0.jpg" border=0 width="323" height="220" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Canadian Press Toronto Bleeders Interview </B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>TORONTO - The year is 1652. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Fearing anemia, hemophilia and genetic weaknesses caused by rampant incest among the aristocracy, the king of Holland forbids intermarriage. But one noblewoman is so narcissistic, she wants to make love to herself. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>So she does the next best thing. She has children by her twin brother. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The king's decree sends her to the New World, where she settles on an isolated island off the coast of Maine. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Jump 300 years to the present, where we meet a man named John Strauss, Strauss is suffering from a mysterious, hereditary blood disease, and has traced his roots back to the island. The ailment caused seizures, weakness and a powerful hunger for something, but he doesn't know what. It will soon kill him if its cause and cure are not found. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Thus begins Hemoglobin, a new feature film that has jsut wrapped shooting in Quebec and New Brunswick. Its star is Roy Dupuis, 33, who has a string of credits in Quebec cinema and threatre, and who has been showing up in English-language film of late. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Dupuis co-starred with Peter Weller in the science-fiction thriller Screamers, and he was Oliva, the confused and harried father of the Dionne quints in the TV movie Million Dollar Babies. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Now he shares the screen with dutch actor Rutger Hauer in Hemoglobin. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Dupuis's French-language credits include audacious but revered titles like Jesus de Montreal and How to Make Love to a Negro without Getting Tired. His favorite, though, was 1991's Being At Home With Claude, by director Jean Beaudin. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Now English-language films are taking in somewhere else, and while it represents a challenge to work in his second language, he does not find it an insurmountable one. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Born in Quebec's remote Abitibi region, Dupuis also spent part of his youth in Kapuskasing in northern Ontario. A 1986 graduate of the Ecole Nationale de Threatre, he is not married and calls Montreal home. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Although he has turned down many offers from Hollywood agents, Dupuis has accepted one that will take him to Toronto for six months of filming. It's a make-for-US-cable series based on the popular and ultra-violent French file La Femme Nikita. </B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="4bf37270.jpg" border=0 width="311" height="39" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="4bf37270.jpg" border=0 width="311" height="39" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>             ANALISYS OF ROY'S HANDWRITING.                                         </B><A HREF="id80.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="ANALISYS OF ROYS HANDWRITING."><U><B><IMG SRC="4c596320.jpg" border=0 width="150" height="50" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>