Post by First Mutant on Aug 22, 2008 10:10:44 GMT
Hey there! Just dropping in to share something about the amazing Joris Jarsky for your website, which I love.
From Inside Toronto 8/21/08:
From Inside Toronto 8/21/08:
Actor to celebrate a film festival three-peat
Bloor West resident and actor Joris Jarsky is starring in three films at next month's Toronto International Film Festival.
BY LISA RAINFORD
August 21, 2008 11:43 AM
After graduation from theatre school, actor Joris Jarsky, whose home base is an apartment in the Bloor Street West and Dovercourt Road area, read Portuguese author Jose Saramago's masterwork Blindness, a harrowing story about the fragility of the human race.
"I made a wish that if they ever made it into a movie, I wanted to be in it," Jarsky recalled in an interview with The Villager Wednesday.
Fast forward almost a decade later and Jarsky's wish has come true. Saramago's book has been adapted for the big screen and the much anticipated movie, starring Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo, featuring Jarsky, will make its Canadian debut during the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) next month. Jarsky appears in not one, but three films showing at the festival.
He has lead roles in Toronto Stories and the short film The Green Door.
It'll be a family reunion of sorts for Jarsky, who has friends coming from Mexico, who he met while filming Blindness and people from Los Angeles who he's met over the years in the business.
"It's always nice to discover movies you'd not otherwise hear of," he said of the festival.
Jarsky has been fortunate to work consistently since he got his first role in a play just before graduating from the National Theatre School of Canada in 1999. He was cast as a psychopathic killer - an instructor thought he'd be a great fit for the role. Roles in theatre, TV and film followed. Jarsky appeared as a regular in the cult hit series Vampire High and has appeared in numerous television shows including Sue Thomas: F.B. Eye, Show Me Yours, The Eleventh Hour, Mutant X and many more. Jarsky also co-starred with Ryan Reynolds and Kristin Booth in FoolProof, one of Canada's widest-reaching feature film releases.
"I've never had to be a waiter. Not that that's a bad thing," he said.
He auditioned for Blindness last May in the same week that he auditioned for The Hulk, starring Edward Norton and was cast in both films. Blindness is set in a city ravaged by an epidemic of instant 'white blindness.' Those first afflicted are quarantined by the authorities in an abandoned mental hospital where the newly created 'society of the blind' quickly breaks down. Criminals and the physically powerful prey upon the weak, hording the meager food rations and committing horrific acts.
"It's about what happens when everything you had and thought you had you don't have anymore and how you react," Jarsky, who plays a hooligan, said.
Jarsky described his character as a normal guy who gets put in an extreme situation and becomes a psychopath. The set is modelled after the Super Dome in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina - "it was a disgusting mess," Jarsky said.
"But once you knew it was chocolate pudding, it was funny."
Toronto Stories is a feature film comprised of four stories that a boy witnesses in the course of a single day on the city streets of Toronto - and how, in the end, each of those stories comes to be connected. Each of the four stories is directed by a different director including Sook- Yin Lee, Sudz Sutherland, David Weaver and Aaron Woodley.
"I love to do homegrown. I would do that all the time if I could. I'm truly proud of all of them," Jarsky said of his three films.
Bloor West resident and actor Joris Jarsky is starring in three films at next month's Toronto International Film Festival.
BY LISA RAINFORD
August 21, 2008 11:43 AM
After graduation from theatre school, actor Joris Jarsky, whose home base is an apartment in the Bloor Street West and Dovercourt Road area, read Portuguese author Jose Saramago's masterwork Blindness, a harrowing story about the fragility of the human race.
"I made a wish that if they ever made it into a movie, I wanted to be in it," Jarsky recalled in an interview with The Villager Wednesday.
Fast forward almost a decade later and Jarsky's wish has come true. Saramago's book has been adapted for the big screen and the much anticipated movie, starring Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo, featuring Jarsky, will make its Canadian debut during the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) next month. Jarsky appears in not one, but three films showing at the festival.
He has lead roles in Toronto Stories and the short film The Green Door.
It'll be a family reunion of sorts for Jarsky, who has friends coming from Mexico, who he met while filming Blindness and people from Los Angeles who he's met over the years in the business.
"It's always nice to discover movies you'd not otherwise hear of," he said of the festival.
Jarsky has been fortunate to work consistently since he got his first role in a play just before graduating from the National Theatre School of Canada in 1999. He was cast as a psychopathic killer - an instructor thought he'd be a great fit for the role. Roles in theatre, TV and film followed. Jarsky appeared as a regular in the cult hit series Vampire High and has appeared in numerous television shows including Sue Thomas: F.B. Eye, Show Me Yours, The Eleventh Hour, Mutant X and many more. Jarsky also co-starred with Ryan Reynolds and Kristin Booth in FoolProof, one of Canada's widest-reaching feature film releases.
"I've never had to be a waiter. Not that that's a bad thing," he said.
He auditioned for Blindness last May in the same week that he auditioned for The Hulk, starring Edward Norton and was cast in both films. Blindness is set in a city ravaged by an epidemic of instant 'white blindness.' Those first afflicted are quarantined by the authorities in an abandoned mental hospital where the newly created 'society of the blind' quickly breaks down. Criminals and the physically powerful prey upon the weak, hording the meager food rations and committing horrific acts.
"It's about what happens when everything you had and thought you had you don't have anymore and how you react," Jarsky, who plays a hooligan, said.
Jarsky described his character as a normal guy who gets put in an extreme situation and becomes a psychopath. The set is modelled after the Super Dome in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina - "it was a disgusting mess," Jarsky said.
"But once you knew it was chocolate pudding, it was funny."
Toronto Stories is a feature film comprised of four stories that a boy witnesses in the course of a single day on the city streets of Toronto - and how, in the end, each of those stories comes to be connected. Each of the four stories is directed by a different director including Sook- Yin Lee, Sudz Sutherland, David Weaver and Aaron Woodley.
"I love to do homegrown. I would do that all the time if I could. I'm truly proud of all of them," Jarsky said of his three films.