Director Erik Canuel, centre, reacts to an on-set explosion effect while shooting the film Bon Cop, Bad Cop, alongside the film’s stars Patrick Huard, left, and Colm Feore.Érik Canuel, who died in Montreal on June 15 at the age of 63, was one of the top movie directors in Quebec, perhaps best known for his successful 2006 film“I think we still hold the box-office record for Quebec and Canada,” Mr. Huard said of the film, which brought in more than $12.5-million worldwide. Mr.
Writer, actor and director Mr. Huard was impressed by that film and went on to collaborate with Mr. Canuel on three productions, includinga body is discovered atop a billboard on the provincial border, with its heart in Quebec and its bottom in Ontario, as one character quips. These unusual circumstances lead to the unlikely pairing of Colm Feore’s character, an uptight anglophone police officer and Mr. Huard’s cool Québécois cop.
“When we finally shot it and Patrick and I were doing our three- or four-page scene, suddenly the thing explodes on Érik’s cue so we just responded, no acting required, and I don’t know if he did this deliberately or not but we carried on and the cameras were still rolling and it exploded again,” said Mr. Feore from his home in Stratford, Ont. “We carried on with the scene because nobody said ‘cut’ which is what you do as an actor.
“Érik loved exploring different genres,” Mr. Veillet said. “My impression is he was an eternal teenager and he had difficulty with authority.”
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