Vancouver is a go-to city for Hollywood. They can make it look like just about anywhere. But Vancouver finally doubles for Vancouver in the Canadian indie film Everything's Gone Green. Canadian actor Paulo Costanzo enjoyed his first experience working in his homeland, authentically representing itself.
Paulo Costanzo Goes Green
"There's a huge film industry there and the crews are all Canadian," said Costanzo. "They're all Vancouverites and there's a big film industry there. They're very competent and they're good at what they do. But rarely if ever do they get to actually work on a movie that takes place in their hometown. They're so used to having it be like America somewhere, like Seattle or New York, that they all got really invested in the project because it was about Vancouver and everyone on the set had read the script so it was unlike other movies that I've ever done."
Since everyone became the home team, Costanzo involved the entire crew in his creative process. "There was this huge sense of camaraderie on the set. Everybody was into it. Everybody knew the script. Like during a scene, I could turn to the prop guy and say, 'Hey, what do you say? Do you think I'm nailing the romantic undertones here? Am I underplaying?' He's like, 'No, you're doing great, no, you're doing great. Remember in scene 67, you've got to pace yourself. Scene 67's where you gotta let it rip.' I was like, 'Yeah, you're right.' Everyone had an authority about the script that was really cool."
Having experienced the alternative, working in Canada as America, Costanzo had to adjust his usual performance. "Everything I've shot in Vancouver always, if you're going to shoot exteriors, you're constantly dressing it to be somewhere else. You're covering all the Canadian things. All the Canadian actors have to cover their accents. This is one of the first times many of these people have worked on a feature in Vancouver without having to mask their 'aboots.' I had to bring back my 'Aboot.' Even just working in Toronto, they have a continuity person being like, 'No, you can't say aboot, what are you talking about?' I'm like, 'What the hell are you talking aboot? I don't say aboot.' 'Oh yeah.'"
Everything's Gone Green
Luckily, speaking Canadian is like riding a bicycle. "You stay in Canada for a week, you get it back. The first week you're there though, everyone sounds like freaks. They're like, 'Hey, let's go over to my hoose.' Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hey, now."
Costanzo plays a writer for a lottery magazine who gets involved with a scam and romances a set dresser while caring for the environment. So that's money and the environment. There's marijuana that's also green, and jealous people. Anything else relating to the title?
"No, you actually came up with more than I had. Good work. The surroundings, the golf course, the money, the weed but the envy is a good one. I didn't really read much more into it. I'm sure it has many, many meanings. And it's timely. It's timely. My friend was telling me that in the fashion world, for some reason everything has kind of gone green recently. Everyone's talking about green, green is the new color, green, green."
Everything's Gone Green is now playing in limited release.
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