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\nNo! – Fehr<\/strong><\/p>\n
B.C.’s Brendan Fehr stays clear of sex, drugs and alcohol David Spaner, Staff
\nReporter The Province<\/p>\nBrendan Fehr may resemble David Duchovny physically but in other ways he
\nappears more like . . . Pat Boone.<\/p>\nEven before Fehr left town to find TV stardom in The WB series Roswell, he
\nwas drawing comparisons to The X-Files’ Duchovny.<\/p>\n“I think I definitely bear a resemblance. I won’t deny that,” says the
\n22-year-old Fehr. “We both spent time in Vancouver and we’re both kind of on
\na sci-fi show.”<\/p>\nThat takes care of the Duchovny connection. The connection to Pat Boone —
\nthe singer famous for his religious devotion to clean living — arose when
\nFehr recently told Movieline magazine that he didn’t indulge in sex, drugs or
\nalcohol.<\/p>\n“That’s just common sense to me,” he says on the Los Angeles set of Roswell.
\n“To me, there’s no point in doing any of those things. I think it’s obviously
\na healthier way to be. I’m not here to impress anyone with how I live my
\nlife. I’m here to impress them with what I do on screen.”<\/p>\nEver been tempted?<\/p>\n
“Not enough to try,” he says. “I was curious what kind of drunk you would be
\n— the horny kind, the violent kind or the funny kind. I can be horny on my
\nown and the other two we can leave up to everyone’s imaginations.”<\/p>\n– – –<\/p>\n
Brendan Fehr is not your run of the mill movie star from Vancouver.<\/p>\n
Besides being inordinately sober, he has never had the obsession with the
\nmovies that other actors have. He was always more interested in sports,
\nalthough he says: “Every kid dreams of doing an action movie, driving a fast
\ncar, getting the girl.”<\/p>\nBorn in New Westminster, Fehr grew up in Winnipeg, where he was raised by his
\nmom, a case manager at the Stony Mountain Correctional Institute. He came out
\nto Vancouver to attend a wedding in the summer of 1997.<\/p>\n“I was just putzing around,” he admits.<\/p>\n
At the urging of friends, he visited the Look Talent Agency looking for
\nmodelling work and met his future manager, Jim Sheasgreen.<\/p>\n“He had just come back from lunch,” says Fehr. “He took a look at me and for
\nwhatever reason thought that I could be on television.”<\/p>\nFehr was dispatched to his first audition, for a small role on Breaker High.<\/p>\n
“I went on it and totally I didn’t know what to expect. It was just a
\nterrible audition. They liked the way I looked enough that they thought I
\ncould slide through.”<\/p>\nHe had wanted to be a math teacher and planned to study education at the
\nUniversity of Manitoba but instead decided to give acting in Vancouver a try
\nfor a month.<\/p>\n“My mom flew down and we made the decision: ‘If we’re going to stay a month,
\nlet’s stay six.’ I just started working.”<\/p>\nAnd the jobs didn’t let up. On TV, there were a couple of Millenniums, a
\nNight Man, movies of the week, commercials, a New Addams Family. At the
\nmovies: Disturbing Behavior, Final Destination.<\/p>\n“I was averaging about a job a month.”<\/p>\n
– – –<\/p>\n
“They’re using their powers to try to stop someone from hurting them,” a crew
\nmember whispers to me during the shooting of Roswell episode No. 20.<\/p>\nFehr and his companions have discovered a body in a morgue played by L.A.’s
\ncreepy Sybil Brand Institute, an abandoned women’s prison. A wind machine
\nblows back Fehr’s hair and jean jacket as he raises a hand and hollers: “What
\nare you doing here?”<\/p>\nRoswell is an edgy series in which Fehr is a descendant of an alien who
\narrived in 1947. That was the year the actual town of Roswell, N.M., was the
\nsite of a reported landing that has long preoccupied UFO aficionados.<\/p>\nDuring a break in shooting, Fehr says his character “finds out about his past
\nand embraces his whole alienhood.”<\/p>\nThe last of 22 episodes will air May 22 on VTV (the show runs Mondays at 8
\np.m.) and whether the series is renewed for next season won’t be known before
\nmid-May.<\/p>\nFehr’s been living in the Hancock Park section of L.A., near Paramount
\nstudios, where Roswell is shot.<\/p>\n“There’s a lot of people here from Canada in general, especially from Toronto
\nand Vancouver.”<\/p>\nWhen Fehr pines for Canada, however, he’s not thinking about Toronto
\nstreetlife or Vancouver scenery.<\/p>\n“I don’t care if it (L.A.) is hot, cold, flat or mountainous,but it’s nothing
\nlike home — which I consider actually Winnipeg. That’s where a lot of my
\nfamily is. That’s where my best friends are.”<\/p>\nHe says Winnipeg is not impressed by his newfound celebrity.<\/p>\n
“I don’t think they pay much attention to it, which is good . . . to them,
\nit’s just one more thing to make fun of me, to laugh at.”<\/p>\nAs for the future, he’s looking to do movies. But Fehr realizes show-biz is
\nno sure thing and he’s as refreshingly open about his profession as he is
\nabout his lifestyle.<\/p>\n“Some days, you wake up and you think you could go and clean up at the
\nOscars. Other days, you wake up and think you’ll never land another gig once
\nthis is up. I may turn out to really suck beyond this character. I may be a
\nflavour of the month and my month might already be up.<\/p>\n“I’m looking forward to giving it a shot and see what happens.”<\/p>\n
When he won the Roswell role, he took it in stride, Canadian-
\nstyle.<\/p>\n“I get more excited about hockey games than landing roles.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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