
Food talk under the Riviera
By Natasha Stoynoff Sunday,
May 24, 1998
CANNES - You
don't really want to think about the end of the world as
you lounge under the bright Riviera sun. But since
that's what their film, Last Night -- showing at the
Cannes Film Fest -- is about, actors Callum Keith Rennie
and Sandra Oh oblige us with musing of how they might
spend their last six hours on earth:
CALLUM:
"I'd eat airplane food as my last meal. The kind you'd
get in coach. The chicken entree."
SANDRA: "Definitely Korean food. Dumpling soup.
Now that's comfort food. And I'd be listening to
something by The Clash."
C:
"Fractured Atlas by Elvis Costello."
S: "For my last movie? Something really
romantic."
C:
"Tommy Boy?"
(They both howl with laughter.)
C:
"Okay, okay. Wings Of Desire. 'Cause, gosh darnit,
the damn thing's so hopeful! Lemme switch that to the
last 10 minutes of Apocalypse Now."
S: "Casablanca! Romantic yet bittersweet."
C:
"So what about sex?"
S: "I don't know. What if it was bad sex?
Forget it!"
C
(smiling wickedly): "You can make even bad sex good."
S: "Too much pressure."
C:
"I'd be so tense, I'd need a release."
S: "But what if you couldn't release in TIME?"
C:
"But to go out while doing it ... the explosion in
the end would be like ... death."
S: "So the end of the world would be like one
Big O?"
C:
"Yeah."
S (teasing him about his brief nude scene in the
film): "All you've been doing the last two days is
obsessing about your ass."
C
(defensive): "It's just I've never seen it in that
framework before. I don't want the terror of seeing my
own ass on screen. What if I like it -- a LOT?" (He
laughs.)
S: "I think it's very important we see Callum's
ass in the film. We never get to see enough men's asses
on screen."
C:
"Let's change the subject."
S: "Okay. The last book I'd read? Sexing The
Cherry -- there's one page that describes these magnetic
beings that are dancing ... spinning until they become
particles of light."
C:
"I'd read The Toronto Sun. No question."
|