#really wished they'd spelled Billy Tallent correctly throughout the article

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Callum Keith Rennie: Because I knew the time, and I grew up in all of it. I really didn't want Bruce to do some hackney piece with some actors acting the part. Because I really lived through a lot of that stuff, without being a musician, but with all the friends and people I knew and the early punk days in Edmonton, so all of that stuff was really relevant to me.

Bruce McDonald: Bernie [Coulson] was a lock. As soon as he walked into the room, it was like OK, he's in. John Piper Ferguson, who I'd seen a little bit, was also a lock. We'd seen tons of people for the parts of Billy Talent and Joe Dick who are the leading couple in the movie. Callum was the third-person cast, he had this easy swagger, and this confidence and his lack of trying to be a rock star. It's weird, every other actor came in, and they were trying to be punk rock, attitude-y loud-mouthy, and he just kinda eased in like fucking Clint Eastwood, and it was like this guy owns it. And you're like, OK, there's Billy Talent!

Hugh Dillon: When I met Callum Rennie, it was like Bruce—he's the most generous, decent actor I've worked with, to this day. He taught me to trust my instincts and to not take any shit.

He came on the road with the Headstones and saw it all, and we were just friends, we hit it off. Like with Bruce we are all kind of kindred spirits, we work outside the box, it's difficult to trust a lot of people in this business, and we really trusted each other. Callum and I just laughed a lot and when you laugh with people that's half of it.