How much time did it took Christopher Plummer to drag into a film festival?”
It takes a big year to drag Christopher Plummer to a film festival. Luckily, he’s had a few of those lately. Indeed, with his two 2009 entries — the legendary Canadian actor is the lead voice in the animated film My Dog Tulip, and he plays the title role in the star-crossed Terry Gilliam film The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus (Heath Ledger’s last film) — he’ll have had six movies in the Toronto International Film Festival this decade. (The others: Emotional Arithmetic, Closing the Ring, Syrianna and Ararat). Plummer admits, however, “I haven’t been to the (Toronto) festival very much. I don’t usually like festivals because you meet people that you never see again — a great deal of hangers-on, almost professional hangers-on. They almost never have anything to do with the business. “So I’ve avoided these things unless it really is necessary to be there,” he adds with a laugh over the phone from his Connecticut home. “It was two movies the last time (2007), when I had Dicky Attenborough
Indeed, with his two 2009 entries — the legendary Canadian actor is the lead voice in the animated film My Dog Tulip, and he plays the title role in the star-crossed Terry Gilliam film The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus (Heath Ledger’s last film) — he’ll have had six movies in the Toronto International Film Festival this decade. (The others: Emotional Arithmetic, Closing the Ring, Syrianna and Ararat). Plummer admits, however, “I haven’t been to the (Toronto) festival very much. I don’t usually like festivals because you meet people that you never see again — a great deal of hangers-on, almost professional hangers-on. They almost never have anything to do with the business.
