Thanks to Mr. Manager for sending this to me.<\/p>\n
Movie horse sends Fehr flying
\nThe Vancouver Sun
\nLynne McNamara<\/p>\nHe doesn’t do glamour, he doesn’t do pretty, he doesn’t forget his hard-rock
\nroots. He doesn’t avoid style, but doesn’t let it get in his way.<\/p>\nThat’s how New Westminster-born, Winnipeg-raised actor Brendan Fehr is described
\nin the May issue of Movieline magazine. Fehr is nominated as a “new stylemaker”
\nin the glossy publication’s annual Young Hollywood Awards to be handed out
\nSunday at the House of Blues in L.A.<\/p>\nHe might not make it to the awards. For the next few weeks, Fehr is in rural
\nManitoba on hiatus from his role as teen alien Michael on the Warner Bros.
\nseries Roswell to shoot Anne Wheeler’s 1890’s drama, Wilderness Station.<\/p>\nFehr calls to chat from his room at the Castle Bed & Breakfast in Minnedosa, a
\n21\u00da2-hour drive west of Winnipeg, where he is nursing bruises inflicted by a
\nhorse on the first day of shooting.<\/p>\nDuring one take, Fehr, cast as the brutal and demanding Scot homesteader Simon,
\nfrightened the animal, which bucked him off.<\/p>\n“He shot forward and \u00c9 I saw two hooves coming at me. Luckily, they missed my
\n[family jewels] by about an inch.”<\/p>\nFehr’s manager, Jim Sheasgreen, who joined the phone call from Vancouver, sees
\nWilderness Station as a great showcase for his client’s talents.<\/p>\n“He’s played the brooding teen angst guy,” Sheasgreen said, referring to
\nRoswell’s Michael. “But Simon was something completely different.”<\/p>\nFehr adds: “He was a bad guy — it was something I’d never done before, and it
\nput me close to home as well.”<\/p>\nSheasgreen discovered Fehr in 1997 when the handsome teenager, visiting
\nVancouver from Winnipeg, popped into Sheasgreen’s Look Management talent and
\nmodelling agency, looking for a quick modelling gig.<\/p>\nHe saw Fehr’s potential and sent him to a few auditions. A week later, Fehr was
\nup for a nine-line guest role on the teen series Breaker High.<\/p>\nSoon he was a hot commodity locally, guesting on Millennium and The New Addams
\nFamily, and landing film roles, including teen movie, Disturbing Behavior.<\/p>\nIn the fall of 1999 he moved to Los Angeles for his Roswell role.<\/p>\n
Fehr’s new movie, Screen Gems’ The Forsaken, opens Friday.<\/p>\n
Shot last year in Yuma, Ariz., it’s the story of a guy (played by Kerr Smith)
\ndriving cross-country to deliver a vintage Mercedes. He picks up a
\nhitchhiker\/vampire hunter (Fehr) and the trip turns surreal.<\/p>\n“That, to date, in my small and short career so far, was the fun-est time I’ve
\never had making anything,” Fehr said.<\/p>\nHe and Smith hit it off right away.<\/p>\n
“He’s absolutely hilarious,” Fehr said. “I could just sit there and hang out
\nwith him for days on end. He’s not this Hollywood-type guy. He just wants to
\nhang out with his ‘boys of old’ and go out and have fun, which is exactly how I
\nam. Everything just seemed to really click on that picture.”<\/p>\nBut sometimes vampire movies can really suck. Does this one?<\/p>\n
“We’ve kind of reached the point where if you stick to the strictly vampire
\nthing you’ve just seen it before,” Fehr concedes. “Ours encompasses a whole
\nbunch of genres, beyond the vampire horror element. We got a road-trip thing
\ngoing, car chase desert stuff, we got a buddy element with me and Kerr, there
\nare light moments, funny moments.”<\/p>\nIn the next few weeks Warner Bros. will decide whether there will be a third
\nseason of Roswell. Fehr is not concerned about a possible cancellation. He says
\nthat although Roswell and Warner Bros. have afforded a great springboard to
\nworking in features, network series television can be limiting.<\/p>\n“I don’t regret ever taking it, no one wants to be ungrateful, but there’s a
\ntime when you want to move on and you want to try new things. Being stuck in a
\ntelevision series where we work the hours [10 to 14 hours five days a week] and
\nthe amount of time we do, it’s really difficult to spread your wings in that
\nsense.<\/p>\n“I never got into acting to play the same character for years on end. It’s not
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