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Don't blame Canada for 'runaways'
By Alex Dobuzinskis
Staff Writer
With all the talk of runaway American film and television productions heading to Canada, you don't hear much about Canada's runaways -- the thousands of actors, directors, writers and other media professionals who work in Los Angeles.
They include cast members of the NBC drama "American Dreams," a veteran film and TV writer with credits from "Cheers" and "Roseanne," and a dialect coach who has worked for Warner Bros. and teaches Canadian actors to "turn on an American voice."
Among them is Vanessa Lengies, an 18-year-old Canadian actress from "American Dreams," a show that re-creates the "American Bandstand" era. Given the show's name and theme, Lengies' nationality and those of other Canadian cast members are joked about on the set.
But the "American dream relates to everyone," said Lengies, who worked in television in Canada before coming to Hollywood.
For cast member Jamie Elman, being Canadian involves some extra acting.
Elman learned to lose his Canadian accent on the show "Student Bodies," which was produced in Canada for an American audience.
"They would come out after every take almost and tell me all the words I mispronounced," Elman said.
The practice gave Elman an edge to succeed in Hollywood, he said.
"There's still a film and TV market in Canada that we got to cut our chops on before coming down here," he said.
But Canadian actors who are serious about their work "have to come to Hollywood," he said.
Canadian Paul Roberts, who plays a young Dick Clark in "American Dreams," said most Canadians in the film and television industry "are mistaken for Americans anyhow so ... the foreigner bridge that you have to cross isn't really there."
"The core of the industry is still here," said Roberts. "And I think actors work where there is work."