Vancouver director Bruce Sweeney (Last Wedding, Excited) tends to take a long time between movies (five movies in 15 years) and his latest is no exception.
Actor Gabrielle Rose, the Vancouver stage and indie-film queen, has had a creative partnership of late with Sweeney, going back to the sexual-dysfunction comedy Excited, in which she played the main character’s overbearing mother.
In Sweeney’s latest, The Crimes of Mike Reckett, Rose plays a rich widow who is charmed by the conman title character, played by Nicholas Lea.
They filmed on and off for more than a year and a half, and the movie is aiming for a berth this fall at the Toronto and Vancouver film festivals.
“I think it’s going to be quite fabulous, we certainly had a marvellous time filming it,” she told me. “It’s kind of a thriller.”
Lea and Mike Reckett co-star Agam Darshi also had roles in Excited. Lea has been busy with jobs in Vancouver and down south recently, as have Rose and Darshi, so Sweeney had to work around the schedules of his leads.
“Nick got a job, I got a job,” says Rose. “So every so often Bruce would e-mail me, going are you ready this weekend? I’d say I just cut my hair.”
Meanwhile, Rose will be at the Jessie awards for Vancouver theatre later in June, where she’s nominated for her subtle take on an artist falling to dementia in the play Scar Tissue, writer Dennis Foon’s adaptation of the Michael Ignatieff novel.
