Actor
Aldège 'Le Yankee' Lapointe “The Quebec Actor Who Played the Ultimate Foreign Tycoon”
Lapointe, a farmer's son from Saint-Rémi, played the cigar-chomping software baron plotting to smuggle Canadian job seekers' data across the border. He learned his booming American accent from a single radio commercial for chewing gum, and it shows. His ten-gallon hat was so large that it had its own stand-in for the long shots.
How He Was Discovered
Discovered at a county fair doing an impression of a travelling salesman so convincing that three people tried to buy his cart.
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Trivia
- His cigars were rolled-up maple leaves, which made the whole set smell like autumn.
- He refused to break character at lunch and kept trying to buy the catering truck.
Quotes
“Data sovereignty? Son, I've never even heard of the place!”