THE PROVINCE: Rom-com role a bit alien to Amanda Tapping
Sanctuary/Stargate star happy to show her comedic side
By Glen Schaefer, The Province March 2, 2012
Amanda Tapping has come down to Earth, you might say.
"There’s nothing hiding around any corner, aliens aren’t going to zap us out of space," says the Vancouver actor on the set of the indie rom-com Random Acts of Romance.
"I’m not chasing monsters."
Director Katrin Bowen and her crew have dressed an east Vancouver office space to serve as the office for Tapping’s banker character Dianne, a former college prof who lost that job when she had an affair with a student (co-star Zak Santiago).
Now married, the two are one set of the movie’s several couples in disarray, in a story that Tapping says is aiming for a darker comedic edge.
"Dianne is a somewhat uptight, very unhappy woman at the moment," says Tapping, clad in a banker’s suit as she waits for a lighting setup. "Her husband’s not motivated, I’m feeling frustrated and we’re not going anywhere. There’s this incredible chemistry and passion between the two of them, but this movie finds them at the end of their marriage and how they stumble through it..."
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