![]() ![]() "I just don't like any team sports," says the comic, who is being offered more and more film parts, including Garry Marshall's upcoming ensemble comedy The film is a weird mix of drama, comedy and a love story – with a breakout musical number on skates, as well as a wedding (where Peters shows up at the temple on an elephant) and specially designed hockey helmets to accommodate the traditional Sikh turban.ĭuring the Toronto International Film Festival, Peters says Virmani told him that his inspiration for theīreakaway script came after watching the stand-up comic perform and crack a joke about an all-Indian hockey team – the Toronto Maple Sikhs – where "Singh passes to Singh, and Singh shoots on Singh," laughs Peters, who plays a self-important businessman who has nothing but disdain for the national game.Īt first he turned down the part, Peters admits. "I'm really proud of that part of the film."īreakaway is a first-time script by newcomer actor Vinay Virmani, who also stars in the film, alongside love interest Camilla Belle, Brampton-born comedian Russell Peters, as well as cameos from Toronto's hip-hop artist Drake and Bollywood superstar Akshay Kumar. "I wanted a crack at the iconic coach part, where he gets to rally the troops," says Lowe, who wrote the team-rousing speech that he delivers just before the fate-changing championship game. Winters takes on the daunting position of coach of the Speedy Singhs (yes, everyone on the team has the last name Singh), who are determined to try to wrest the championship from the reigning local franchise, the Hammerheads, who don't think Speedy Singhs belong in their beloved game. When audiences meet the cynical, down-on-his-luck Winters inīreakaway, he's managing a local arena in the suburbs, where a fledgling team of really bad Sikh-Canadian hockey players are trying to be taken seriously. Sporting a frayed Mustangs T-shirt ("This is my little nod to my first film for those who care"), Lowe says he jumped at the chance to play Dan Winters, a once-promising NHL prospect whose raging ego cost him his professional sports career. Now Lowe has grown up – and, fittingly, so has his hockey role inīreakaway. Youngblood, which Lowe made when he was in his early 20s, he played the hotshot player who joined the Hamilton Mustangs and soon got the wake-up call that, to survive in the minor leagues, he had to learn (from his team mentor, played by Patrick Swayze) that he'd better know how to fight. We live in a world where movies are more derivative each year, and this is a film that just wants to make you feel good. "I've never seen a movie like this, ever. ![]() Parks and Recreation, and the raunchy drama The theme of assimilation is what attracted me to this role."īreakaway into a schedule that was already jam-packed with his TV day jobs, as a regular on Amy Poehler's In this movie, hockey is the metaphor – and it really could be any sport – for how a young team of second-generation Sikh-Canadians try to find their Canadian identity. It's what brings people together and it's how Canadians, in particular, find their common bond. ![]()
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