He met the show's creator, Jared Keeso, on a film set in Vancouver, and along with most of the actors on the show, they laced up the skates together. That character is right in my back pocket."Ī composite of hockey players he has met and played with over the years with "the funny part turned up," Playfair got his "Letterkenny" break while playing - what else - beer league hockey. "If I ever have to play like a tech-bro or a career-long rancher or something like that, it's going to be a lot more character work and figuring out what's this guy's motivation and where they come from. So for me, it's funny that the character I've had the most success with is for sure the one that's come the most easily for me. "He says, 'Every character I play already exists inside of me somewhere.'. "Tom Hanks has this really cool quote on the characters that he plays," Playfair told NHL.com. Hockey: The Gordie Howe Story" Dean Hunter, an American trying to continue his hockey dreams in Europe in "Odd Man Rush" and Coach T in "The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers."īeginning Monday, he'll reprise his role as Reilly, one of "the hockey players" when the 11th season of the popular Hulu series "Letterkenny" premieres (the show debuted in Canada on Sunday). He played Marty Howe, son of Gordie Howe, in "Mr. Since dropping his gloves to take up acting after playing with Merritt of the British Columbia Hockey League in 2010-11, Playfair has appeared in several roles where his knowledge of the game, on the ice and inside the locker room, has come in quite handy. The technique, where an actor fully immerses themselves into the character they are portraying, is something Playfair unwittingly has been doing since he was a child traversing North America as his father, former NHL player Jim Playfair, coached across the hockey landscape.
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