![]() ![]() cable series "Rectify," also loved the scripts and read three in one sitting. He found they passed what he calls his "must surprise me in the first 10 pages" test. He was tracked down at his farm north of San Francisco and sent the first two scripts. "Peter Coyote was a good choice for us," says Parizeau. The producers started looking for an elegant actor in his 70s who could play the retired judge. You see a spiciness that you just don't get with purely anglophone stories." "The writers were a couple with kids who had split up - it is their story," says executive producer Sophie Parizeau.Īfter failing to land a suitable broadcast partner in Quebec, scripts were translated into English, shopped outside the province and eventually sold to Bell Media.Ĭamille Sullivan notes that the family in "The Disappearance" is "very passionate, they're vocal, they're drinkers, smokers. Productions Casablanca started developing it in 2011. ![]() The story began as a francophone project, with scripts written by Normand Daneau and Genevieve Simard. Everybody deals with it as best they can." ![]() When news of the abduction hits the Sullivans, "everybody's skin is sandblasted off," he says. "I can't think of anything worse than the possibility of outliving one of my children," says Coyote, who has two adult offspring. Micheline Lanctot, Joanne Kelly and Kevin Parent also star. The Sullivans are reeling after Henry's beloved young grandchild Anthony, played by Michael Riendeau of Ottawa, goes missing in the middle of a birthday treasure hunt.Īden Young and Camille Sullivan play his separated parents. The hour flew by.Ĭoyote plays former prosecutor and Judge Henry Sullivan, patriarch of a fractured family. The 75-year-old spoke, as well, about his own adventures as a monk, mime, Zen Buddhist, actor and activist. actor, having just narrated "The Vietnam War" for award-winning documentarian and frequent collaborator Ken Burns, sat with four journalists about a year ago on location at a campground outside Montreal to discuss his role in the six-part miniseries "The Disappearance," a psychological thriller premi�ring Sunday on CTV at 9 p.m. MONTREAL - There's something about Peter Coyote's voice that simply makes you listen. ![]()
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