Michael Imperioli Boards Paul Schrader’s ‘Oh, Canada’
deadline.comMichael Imperioli (The White Lotus) is confirmed for a role in Academy Award nominee Paul Schrader’s new film, Oh, Canada, Deadline has learned.
The actor joins an ensemble also including Richard Gere, Jacob Elordi and Kristine Froseth. An adaptation of the late Russell Banks’ 2021 novel Foregone, the film will tell the story of Leonard Fife (Gere), a famed documentary filmmaker who takes stock of his life, with not long to go after being stricken with cancer at 80 years old.
The most unreliable of narrators — and of men — Fife offers the viewer a look at his home life, as a draft dodging artist who abandoned one family for another, consistently evading any sense of responsibility for actions as he starts a new life in Canada.
Elordi plays a young Fife, seen from his late teens through his mid-twenties, and Froseth shares 1968-set scenes with the Saltburn star as the character’s second wife, the conservative Virginian Alicia.
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