Jenkins makes a Wonderful floozy
Tuesday September 14, 2004
By Susan Walker - The Toronto Star
Rebecca Jenkins plays Sandra in Wilby Wonderful, written and directed by Daniel MacIvor. Sandra's character — not to mention Jenkins' highly presentable midriff — is revealed early on in the film when she blithely walks out onto the veranda in full view of the neighbours in the tiny East Coast island community of Wilby.
"That would not be me hanging out there in my underwear, I tell you," she says, with a big, relaxed laugh.
Getting into the role of town floozy to throw herself at Paul Gross, who plays an unhappily married cop, was "hard work, but someone had to do it."
Sandra is a single mother and a poor role model for her 16-year-old daughter Emily, played by the precociously talented Ellen Page.
Jenkins, a single mother herself for five years, could see where her character was going wrong. "When you're a single parent, you're so frightened that you've hurt them that you are apologizing for that and you become a `friend.' That's a mistake."
Jenkins became a stepmother in July when she married Joel Bakan, one of the makers of the documentary The Corporation, and author of the book that came out of it.
Bakan, a UBC law professor, is also a musician. He accompanied Jenkins on the song she composed and sings in Wilby Wonderful, "Something's Coming." Jenkins' 8-year-old daughter Sadie and Bakan's 7-year-old son Mayim both took part in the Jenkins/Bakan wedding on Galiano Island.
Wilby Wonderful is the third MacIvor project Jenkins has acted in. As the writer of Marion Bridge, he recommended her to director Wiebke Von Carolsfeld, who won the First Canadian Feature prize at the festival in 2002.
The same year she starred opposite MacIvor in his feature Past Perfect. Now she's plumping to be in his next feature. "I keep putting it in print it so he has to."
Coming to the festival is not work for Jenkins, who now makes her home in Vancouver. "I get to see a lot of actors that I've either worked with or I know and that I don't otherwise get to see because they're all over the place. And I really love promoting the films that I'm in."
This year's festival, she finds, "seems extra happy. I don't know what that is. Maybe because this year there's no SARS, it's the untainted city again."
Wilby Wonderful screens today at 12:15 pm in Varsity 1 or 6.
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Tuesday September 14, 2004
By Susan Walker - The Toronto Star
Rebecca Jenkins plays Sandra in Wilby Wonderful, written and directed by Daniel MacIvor. Sandra's character — not to mention Jenkins' highly presentable midriff — is revealed early on in the film when she blithely walks out onto the veranda in full view of the neighbours in the tiny East Coast island community of Wilby.
"That would not be me hanging out there in my underwear, I tell you," she says, with a big, relaxed laugh.
Getting into the role of town floozy to throw herself at Paul Gross, who plays an unhappily married cop, was "hard work, but someone had to do it."
Sandra is a single mother and a poor role model for her 16-year-old daughter Emily, played by the precociously talented Ellen Page.
Jenkins, a single mother herself for five years, could see where her character was going wrong. "When you're a single parent, you're so frightened that you've hurt them that you are apologizing for that and you become a `friend.' That's a mistake."
Jenkins became a stepmother in July when she married Joel Bakan, one of the makers of the documentary The Corporation, and author of the book that came out of it.
Bakan, a UBC law professor, is also a musician. He accompanied Jenkins on the song she composed and sings in Wilby Wonderful, "Something's Coming." Jenkins' 8-year-old daughter Sadie and Bakan's 7-year-old son Mayim both took part in the Jenkins/Bakan wedding on Galiano Island.
Wilby Wonderful is the third MacIvor project Jenkins has acted in. As the writer of Marion Bridge, he recommended her to director Wiebke Von Carolsfeld, who won the First Canadian Feature prize at the festival in 2002.
The same year she starred opposite MacIvor in his feature Past Perfect. Now she's plumping to be in his next feature. "I keep putting it in print it so he has to."
Coming to the festival is not work for Jenkins, who now makes her home in Vancouver. "I get to see a lot of actors that I've either worked with or I know and that I don't otherwise get to see because they're all over the place. And I really love promoting the films that I'm in."
This year's festival, she finds, "seems extra happy. I don't know what that is. Maybe because this year there's no SARS, it's the untainted city again."
Wilby Wonderful screens today at 12:15 pm in Varsity 1 or 6.
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