May 17th, 2008

I'm back in Vancouver after a three week stint in beautiful Kamloops, British Columbia playing Isaac Preston in the SciFi Network's latest Movie Of the Week "Lost Treasure of the Grand Canyon." It was Adventure Fun Camp - at least that's how I came to think of it. On the first day of shooting I had to learn how to pilot a horse and buggy, then do so, arriving at a mark between the camera and a three hundred foot drop-off. The second day had me horseback riding down a steep sandy slope, sitting out a genuine sandstorm and riding an ATV up a mountain. The third day was a pit full of cold water and peat-moss to simulate quicksand (not a metaphor), and the fourth day was an abandoned quarry, overgrown with long grasses and populated by marmots - all in the height of wood tick season. Adventure fun camp indeed. I played opposite one of the finest casts I've had the pleasure of working with: Shannen Doherty, Michael Shanks, JR Bourne, Toby Berner, Heather Doerksen, and Duncan Fraser to name a few. The movie was directed by Farhad Mann, who directed, among numerous other things, a great episode of Max Headroom - an oft overlooked television gem - providing me with a vicarious geek-thrill.

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