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Victoria Ahearn\/ The Canadian Press<\/em><\/p>\n

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TORONTO \u2014 Emmy-nominated “Silicon Valley” star Thomas Middleditch has taken the opposite career path of many Canadian actors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Instead of starting his career here and then moving to the U.S., the\u00a0Nelson, B.C., native\u00a0went south first about a decade ago\u00a0and is finally finding his footing\u00a0on this side of\u00a0the border\u00a0with the new Canadian film “Entanglement.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Opening Friday in select Cineplex theatres, the drama stars Middleditch as a divorcee who’s lifted out of his depression after a chance encounter with an adventurous woman, played by Jess Weixler.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“Believe it or not, that’s\u00a0the first thing I’ve ever shot in Canada,” Middleditch said in a recent phone interview.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“I’m kind of like, ‘Canada, why won’t you cast me? I’ve got to come down to the United States to work. I’ve got to steal these people’s jobs over the border.'”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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As Middleditch explains, it was out of necessity that he had to look to American projects for onscreen work.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“I\u00a0auditioned for Second City in Toronto and was not accepted,”\u00a0he said.<\/p>\n

“After a year and a half of doing the indie sketch-comedy world in Toronto,\u00a0I was like, ‘You know what?\u00a0I think they were wrong. I’m going to try (Second City) Chicago,’ and\u00a0I was right.”<\/p>\n

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His Second City Chicago stint was followed by a\u00a0slew of\u00a0film and TV comedy roles, most notably as\u00a0a software designer in\u00a0HBO’s “Silicon Valley,” for which he was nominated for a best actor Emmy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Through his work at The Improvised Shakespeare Company in Chicago, he’s also become good friends with veteran actor Patrick Stewart.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“He and\u00a0I just got along really well, so we’ve hung out from time to time and despite the age gap and despite him\u00a0spending a lot of time in England,\u00a0we’re good friends,” Middleditch said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“I\u00a0do love me a little quality time with the old Sir P. Stew.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Vancouver-based Jason James directs “Entanglement,” which was written by Jason Filiatrault of Calgary.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“It was just one of these scripts that caught me by surprise,” Middleditch said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“I\u00a0don’t really get too many opportunities to do A: dramas, or B:\u00a0films that feel ethereal or trippy or experimental. Those are things that are on my watch list and if they start to fit, then\u00a0I would like to be a part of them.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Indeed, the film includes some fantastical elements as it touches on the theme of how one’s choices in life lead to a tapestry of connections with others.<\/p>\n

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Middleditch is soaking wet in a number of scenes, which were shot in a river in November in Vancouver.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“It was very, very, very cold, but you can’t get me out of the water,” he said.\u00a0“I’m from Nelson, man, where it’s lakes and rivers. I’m a water rat.\u00a0I was a lake kid.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Middleditch said he’s hoping to do more dramas like “Entanglement.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“Even though every single time\u00a0I do them I’m like, ‘Why am\u00a0I doing this?\u00a0I want to do comedy,\u00a0I want to make people laugh,'” Middleditch said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“But I’ll never stop doing comedy, I’ll never stop performing\u00a0live.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“Silicon Valley” returns for its fifth season on March 25 without cast member T.J. Miller, who played entrepreneur Erlich and\u00a0left the show after last season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“Certainly when people feel like they need to move on, it’s best that they do and we all wish him the best,” Middleditch said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“But\u00a0I think this season has been great and the writers are very good writers and they have figured out a way to deal with the Erlich plotline and fill in its absence.\u00a0I think we’ve done a really good job.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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