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Dylan Playfair tests theory in Some Assembly Required"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Bill Harris \/ Canoe.ca<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There are several similarities between being a hockey player and <strong>Dylan Playfair<\/strong>\u2018s character in the new series <em>Some Assembly Required<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old Playfair, who is from a pro-hockey-playing family, gave up the game a couple of years ago to pursue acting. But in<em> Some Assembly Required<\/em> \u2013 which debuts <strong>Monday, Jan. 6<\/strong> on <strong>YTV<\/strong> \u2013 Playfair\u2019s character <strong>Knox<\/strong> is essentially a human crash test dummy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was doing a lot of what Knox does, banging and crashing,\u201d said a laughing Playfair, recalling his days in the Junior-A BCHL. \u201cI wasn\u2019t very skilled if you look at my statistics. I think I had one point in my rookie season and a lot more fights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got a couple knocks on the head and I came to kind of a crossroads with hockey. I wasn\u2019t enjoying it as much as my dad or my brothers. And I had just finished watching <em>Friday Night Lights<\/em> with <strong>Taylor Kitsch<\/strong>, and I researched his story, he had played for the Langley Hornets and had gone through pretty much the exact same thing in terms of leaving hockey and pursuing acting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut it has been fast for me when you consider what it usually takes to go from aspiring actor to working actor,\u201d added Playfair, who also had a recent role as <strong>Marty Howe<\/strong> in the <strong>CBC<\/strong> production<em> Mr. Hockey: The Gordie Howe Story<\/em>. \u201cPart of that was applying the work ethic that I understood from hockey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Some Assembly Required<\/em> is about kids being put in charge of a toy company. Playfair\u2019s Knox is described as someone who would crawl over broken glass to help a friend, but also might do it literally just because it sounds fun.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI grew up half in Canada and half in the U.S.A., and I used to run home from school when I was in elementary and watch all the<strong> Nickelodeon<\/strong> shows,\u201d Playfair recalled. \u201cThat was my dream to be on one of those kids shows. I used to think, \u2018I could do that. I could be that funny.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p>Most acting roles would be safer than being an enforcer-type hockey player. That actually may not be the case for Dylan Playfair\u2019s Knox. But at least the goal in <em>Some Assembly Required<\/em> is comedy, not concussions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Harris \/ Canoe.ca There are several similarities between being a hockey player and Dylan Playfair\u2018s character in the new series Some Assembly Required. 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