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Published on: 8/13/2006
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MONTREAL - Acclaimed theatre, TV and film actor Colm Feore was apparently the only choice when the Canadian makers of Bon Cop Bad Cop were looking for someone to play opposite huge Quebec star Patrick Huard.
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In the buddy cop/black comedy opening Aug. 18, Feore plays a well-dressed, straitlaced, by-the-book Toronto police officer alongside Huard's unshaven, flannel-shirt-wearing, rule-breaking cop from Montreal.
The two men hook up for a joint police investigation after a body is discovered draped over a billboard on the Ontario-Quebec border.
"Colm is one of the greatest actors of his generation," Bon Cop Bad Cop director Erik Canuel says.
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"I think Colm Feore should be a name as big as Harrison Ford.I think he's one of the best actors I've ever seen in my life.
I've always been a huge fan.I always had that big, big, big (wish), ‘One day I'm going to work with that guy.' "
Adds Huard: "For us it was the very clear that we wanted Colm, in the first three minutes that we met him, (producer) Kevin Tierney and I were looking at each other like, ‘It has to be him.
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"What I recognized was a fabulous part for an actor of a certain age - and these don't come along every day," says Feore, an established character actor in Hollywood who currently is starring in four plays at Stratford.
"You're somebody's priest, their lawyer, their father, or something like that - but very rarely do you get people in crisis, they don't make action movies about these kinds of people.So when there was this thing presented I thought, ‘You get to be a hero, you get to be sensitive, you get to be stupid, you get to be all that and in two official languages.This I've got to do!' I didn't tell them that."
Still, life clearly imitated art on the set.It turned out Feore and Huard weren't that different from the polar opposite cops they play.
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"I'm crazy, but I've yielded to my craziness, I know I'm nuts," says Feore, 45, while seated beside the