“We had some incredibly beautiful parts of Canada in this film, and I couldn’t get enough of that, I was so taken by some of the locations,” Dukakis said. They even manage to pick up an attractive hitchhiker (played by Ryan Doucette) along the way.
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So I felt very fortunate to have been offered this part.”įitzgerald’s Nova Scotian influence is apparent throughout the film, as Stella and Dot’s road trip, full of both comical and endearing moments, takes them along the North American east coast. “Then I read and, of course, it was wonderful. She decides to help her best friend and lover Dot escape from her nursing home in Maine, after which the two women embark on a road trip to get married in Canada. The same comical and spunky demeanour came in handy for Dukakis’ role as the foul-mouthed and strong-willed character of Stella in Cloudburst. “What’s up? What do you want?” Dukakis joked as she made her way to a seat by the window for our chat. Stella utters some c’s and b’s and then springs Dot and heads for freedom (i.e., Canada) in her red pickup.
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She’s headed to Lunenberg, N.S., to marry Dot (Brenda Fricker), her partner of 31 years.ĭot’s granddaughter (Kristin Booth, uptight with a grating edge) wants to put her in an old folks’ home in Maine because she’s blind. Stella is a feisty old lesbian in a cowboy hat and lumberjack shirt whose use of the f-word, the c-word, and the words of several other letters thrums under the film like an X-rated soundtrack. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.