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: The Traveller to
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crown of thinning strawberry
‘blond hair, sharp fiese and
poirted chin. Rings cover each
. and every finger: Lucky charms
dangle from his wrists and neck.
goes by “‘R” or Lewis; the
ome Re explains, doesn’t stand
for anything. “It’s just something
strange they do in the Outer
Hebrides Islands” — Morrison's
- ancestral home.

The local actor is convinced that
kinding the part of Braun in
Pacheco's feature film was more
than just tuck.

“Vd been doing a lot of film
production work and one day a
friend said to me, ‘How come
you're doing all this production
stuff?’ His words kind of haunted.
me, and for days and days t
wandered around fike t wasn't
here.

“4 sealized that | had drifted

__ away from acting,” he says, “I'd -
kind of forgotten who I- was...It “
was like | was lost.
“Then one day | talked to-

Bruno Pacheco who was one year

ahead of me at film schoo! at
Simon Fraser University. went
: home and read the script of his
’ film The Traveller and thought,
‘this is crazy, 1 want to pay this
tole.’ it was like the part spoke to
me.”

Morrison describes the 96-
minute film as ‘a metaphysical

. journey paraileled with a physical
journey.’

After his visit to the white world
Braun eventually returns to the
place where he grew up and is
forced to confront the betrayal
that separated him from his past.

“He's forced to come to terms
with that betrayal. That's the driv-
ing force of the movie.” ~

Both Pacheco, a native of Spain,

and Morrison spent a great deal of
time researching West Coast
native Indian culture for the film.

“1 studied every book on
native culture and art like a
fiend,’’ he says.

The film took six months to
shoot and, as Mcrrison explains,
the experience was exhausting,
both mentally and physically.

In one scene the actor had to lie
in sticky mud while being hosed
down with ice-cold water; in
another he was accidentally hit by
a car; in yet another he contracted
hypothermia.

Fortunately for Morrison he
came away from both incidents
relatively unscathed. But he says
of his ordeal: “The whole thing
was a brutal experience.’’

On Oct. 10- Morrison will gain a
much less bruta! perspective of the
film from a comfortable theatre
chair at the Vancouver interna-
tionat Film Festival.

Earlier this month The Traveller
made its North American debut at

-- Toronto’s Festival ' of Festivals.

Morrison, who lives in West
Vancouver with his wife Anthea

‘ and 13-month old child, has

worked with the likes of Maureen
O'Hara and Jackie Gleason. He

*. played a jewelry store clerk is the

movie Bloody Mamma starring

‘Robert DeNiro and Shelly Winters.

After a stint at the National
Theatre School of Canada in Mon-
treal, Morrison earned a film
degree from Simon Fraser Univer-

, Specializing in directing,
iting and screenwriting.

After Vancouver, the filza, not ©

. Morrison, will be busy travelling.

The Traveller gaes to a kost of im
festivals in Alberta, Montrent and
Halifax and has been invited to
Seuth Africa to the Durban Film
Festival.

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