Paul Gross finds happiness in a warm gun
There was always something that nagged Paul Gross about his famous role as respectable Mountie Benton Fraser on the mid-nineties television drama Due South.
“I never actually had a gun, I had a wedge of wood in my holster,” admitted Gross during a recent interview to promote his coincidentally-named new film, Gunless. “So getting to go to work and actually have a real Colt .45, that was just heavenly.”
Although Gross stopped short of insisting a real gun was his impetus for taking on the role of a gunslinger in the new Western-style comedy, he does accept that the weapon informed his portrayal.
“They’re kind of amazing to hold,” said Gross. “I was practising constantly, drawing it and spinning it and trying to do tricks with it …but it’s still in the back of your head (that) this is something that could actually kill people. It sort of does something to you.”
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“I never actually had a gun, I had a wedge of wood in my holster,” admitted Gross during a recent interview to promote his coincidentally-named new film, Gunless. “So getting to go to work and actually have a real Colt .45, that was just heavenly.”
Although Gross stopped short of insisting a real gun was his impetus for taking on the role of a gunslinger in the new Western-style comedy, he does accept that the weapon informed his portrayal.
“They’re kind of amazing to hold,” said Gross. “I was practising constantly, drawing it and spinning it and trying to do tricks with it …but it’s still in the back of your head (that) this is something that could actually kill people. It sort of does something to you.”
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