Actor Jason Priestley might not be scoring that many big roles in this stage of his career, but he’s been quietly been putting the pieces in place to switch to directing. Now, for his first fictional big screen outing (he’s already made music documentary Barenaked In America), Priestley has snagged a big name, scoring Richard Dreyfuss for the lead in Cas & Dylan.Dreyfuss will be the Cas of the title, a Dr. Cas Pepper, who is terminally ill but determined to go out on nobody’s terms but his own. But his plan goes askew when he winds up on the lam with a young woman (we’ll assume she’s the Dylan), played by Tatiana Maslany.Priestley’s working from a script by Jessie Gabe and has rustled up the funds to shoot the movie. Dreyfuss, meanwhile, was last seen in Red and will next appear in...
- 8/13/2012
- EmpireOnline
Hunky actor Jason Priestley amazed TV producers when he slammed Celine Dion for driving Canadians out of their homeland with her music. The events happened on-air on FOX NEWS LIVE Wednesday. Priestley appeared on the program with Linda Vester to promote his new documentary, Barenaked in America (1999), about the Canadian band Barenaked Ladies, premiering in theatres next week. Insiders say a seemingly drunken Priestley spilled coffee all over himself before going live and fell asleep twice in the make-up chair before being left alone to "collect himself." The show source says, "We actually had discussions about whether or not we should let him go on air, " but after the final nap in the make-up chair, Priestley seemed coherent enough. But after a few minutes of talking about his documentary, Priestley changed the subject saying, "There aren't that many Canadians left. "There's only 25, 000, um, 25 million left. We were once 30 million but most people fled the country because they were tired of listening to Celine Dion music."...
- 9/22/2000
- WENN
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