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Your The Record ekkia Gl im to Townships (tt it rk Ariane Moffatt at the Grenada I Page 4 \pt il 5, 2012 Good|leTOS onnection • Mor*e Contact David Teasdale 570-2094 to advertise Bmm\\ Page 2 March 30 - April 5, 2012 newsroom@sherbrookerecord.com TALK Transience: An exhibition at Studio Georgeville by Sigrid Fisher and Margrethe Ulvik Beginning April 7, Studio Georgeville will display new work by two exceptional artists of Scandinavian origin — painter Sigrid Fisher and textile artist Margrethe Ulvik.Their exhibition, titled Transience, explores the fragility of our planet, and its underestimated strength to survive and transcend strain.“We live surrounded by marvellous potential metaphysical reality, particularly in nature," Fisher says.“We need to show a faith for the future in seemingly impossible conditions created by modern society.” Fisher and Ulvik share similar backgrounds.As children, they had the freedom to wander the countryside, as well as the encouragement to develop their artistic skills.Through these circumstances both women developed confidence in their process, and respect for their chosen medium.Though very different in their approach — Fisher’s work is more introspective and contemplative, Ulvik’s, more extroverted and interactive — both artists seem to have simultaneously arrived at some important mutual artistic positions and values.This collaborative exhibition is new to the two women.“I’m thrilled to be showing with Sigrid (Fisher),” Ulvik says.“I’ve long admired her work.” The effect of the combined sculptures, paintings, and drawings of this exhibition are subtle and minimalist, yet PHOTOS COURTESY OF STUDIO GEORGEVILLE Work by Margrethe Ulvik.¦¦ : as stirring as any wilderness journey.Ulvik, who incorporates into her sculptures a wide range of grasses and other found materials, sometimes weaves vinelike strands suitable for building a nest.Fisher draws natural objects, including nest-like structures, in shades of taupe and charcoal, and she creates paintings that have a natural, tactile feeling that makes the viewer want to reach out and touch them.“The works [shown in this exhibition],” Fisher says, “depict earthly matter that makes up the vulnerable cover that forms over the earth with every passing season.” Both artists see their role as a conduit for the message of their material.Neither begins an individual work with a strong sense of the outcome; nevertheless, the work assumes its own definite direction.Ulvik explains, “Like nature, I find the purpose of my creation in the material I work with.By contemplating the material, I discover new ways of expressing myself, which brings me to the next stage in my artistic research.” In exploring the connection between the ephemeral and the underlying architecture of nature, Fisher is clear about what her art attempts to do.“When working with nature, one has to be aware of not artistically immersing oneself in nature’s glory for decorative purposes.The act of reforming nature in our image robs nature of its spirit, and the connection of one facet with another.It is more interesting to show nature’s architecture with authenticity.” Though subtle and outwardly modest, Transience carries an impact, alerting us to the vulnerability of the natural world, while at the same time giving us hope Work by Sigrid Fisher.for the resiliency of our planet.The exhibition runs from Saturday, April 7, to Sunday, April 29.Everyone is welcome to attend the vernissage on Saturday, April 14, from 2 p.m.to 5 p.m.Artists Sigrid Fisher and Margrethe Ulvik will be present.Studio Georgeville, 20 Carré Copp, is open Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m.to 5 p.m.For more information on upcoming events, please call 819-843-9992 or visit www.studiogeorgeville.com.— From Heather Paterson The Beaulne Museum presents ‘By mutual agreement, brush and guitar' D un commun accord, pinceau et guitare by artists Melissa Tardif (artist painter) and Ghislain Caron (guitarist, composer), from April 1 to June 3.The opening and the album launch will take place on Sunday April 1 at 2 p.m.The public and press are cordially invited.For this unique exhibition, artist Melissa Tardif joins with guitarist and composer Ghislain Caron to present a special exhibition with a blend of visual art and music.This exhibition is therefore a dual event where one can finally see the paintings of this young artist and the launch of an instrumental album from this talented and experienced musician.Twelve large paintings associated with twelve musical selections will be presented for this occasioit.Mélissa Tardifs paintings will bring you into a naive and surrealistic world full of contrasts, ranging from hot and cold, euphoria and reflection, dream and tangibility.You will find paintings at once touching and soothing.In this first exhibition.Tardif wants to immortalize the fruits of her social implications.ü n/t/u/u feed her aspirations for a better world, and achieve her goal as a painter.Ghislain Caron has over 30 years experience as a guitarist and has delved into many musical styles.He now finds himself with a solid background on the guitar, and everything that relates to the design of a musical piece.This leads naturally to the next step: taking advantage of the diversity of this wealth of experience to create his own musical uni- ê" Mnm verse.He believes that the B essence of his current ap-1 proach is there to create his music based on his experience and personality with the objective to reveal the richness of the sound of a guitar.He finally feels ready to disseminate openly his musical beliefs and colours as composer thereby creating a complete album.A twofold experience, an exhibition to see and hear! Visit the website at www.pinceauguitare.com .Throughout your visit, an audio tool will allow you to Classical music in Knowlton T b” JLjfpe ’Harmonie des Saisons, the Eastern Townships Granby based classical music ensemble, presents the fourth erformance of its 2011-2012 season on April 12 at 8 p.m., at St-Édouard’s Church in Knowlton.The performance will be an exceptional feast of Easter sacred music, instrumental and vocal, written for the Royal Chapels ofVersailles and London.An international array of vocal soloists joins the period instrument ensemble and choir of L’Harmonie des Saisons, all under the distinguished direction of the internationally renowned New York conductor Eric Milnes.A unique program, worthy of royalty! The ensemble will perform in Sutton at 8 p.m.on April 13, in Granby at 8 p.m.on April 14, and in Bromont at 2 p.m.on April 15.Tickets are available by calling 1-800-387-2262, or at the door, the night of the performance.For more information, please consult www.harmoniedessaisons.com.hear the piece of music associated with the painting.The Ministry of Culture, Communications and the Status of Women, and the City ofCoaticook financially support the Beaulne Museum ofCoaticook.For information call 819-849-6560.From the Beaulne Museum FALK newsroom@sherbrookerccord.com March 30 - April 5, 2012 Page 3 Nice, Nice: With Juno Awards love, Dan Mangan no longer the underdog?By Nick Patch THE CANADIAN PRESS When Dan Mangan strides into the Juno Awards this weekend armed with a pace-setting four nominations, he could also mark the end of one stage of his career.See, up until now the 28-year-old Mangan has been perennially cast as the plucky underdog, a hard-working and humble troubadour who has found success despite being apparently out of sorts with the latest industry trends.Everything about Mangan — from his gently genial hand-crafted indie folk to a fatherly beard that wouldn’t look out of place behind the wheel of a minivan — indicated honesty and a lack of hype-hoard-ing calculation, so he was someone to root for, some one around whom a grassroots movement could assemble.But with four Juno nominations to contest, this weekend could mark the last time anyone underestimates Dan Mangan.“My whole rise in the Canadian music scene was as this D.I.Y., do-everything-yourself, out-of-nowhere dude,” Mangan mused over coffee in Toronto recently.“And that’s how I was perceived for a really long time, as this underdog that ought to be rooted for.So 1 mean — that’s scary.“What if you win a bunch of Junos and all of a sudden it’s like: ‘Aw, great.Mangan won a bunch ofjunos.’ That’s weird.1 was getting pretty used to being the underdog.I was happy to keep that role.” Well, if the Junos do mark the end of an era for Mangan, at least he has the opportunity to walk away with a consolation prize — or four.Mangan says he was as stunned as anyone when the Juno nominations were announced and the press release broadcasting the news prominently featured his name alongside a series of similarly four-time nominated industry giants: Drake, Nickelback, Feist, City and Colour and others.Mangan, who had never been nominated for a Juno before, is up for songwriter of the year, alternative album of the year, new artist of the year and video of the year.The attention from the Junos has left Mangan “bewildered.” While his third disc, 2011’s “Oh Fortune” — on which the winsome singer-songwriter tunes of his past sprouted and bloomed under the care of a full band — opened at No.9 on the Canadian Billboard chart, it wasn’t a major seller.And as Mangan himself points out, the record was arguably less accessible than his breakthrough sophomore disc, “Nice, Nice, Very Nice.” There’s also the fact that Mangan has rarely felt in step with what he regards as a mainstream award show in the Junos.He says he hasn’t actually watched the show in a decade — partly because he’s spent much of that time on the road, and partly because he “wasn’t really listening to any of the bands that were getting nominated.” So Mangan didn’t necessarily think he was Junos material.“To get four (nominations), you almost feel like somebody screwed up,” he said, smiling.“Somebody at the Juno office by accident wrote my name down.‘How could they possibly give this guy from Vancouver four nominations?Weren’t we supposed to give Nickelback like, seven?”’ But for all Mangan’s modesty, it isn’t the first time his work has been singled out for substantial praise.He released “Nice, Nice” in August 2009, winning artist of the year honours at the XM Verge Awards only WIHMEOIA a month later.In May 2010, he signed with the influential Canadian indie imprint Arts & Crafts, which re-released his album in North America.And that summer, Mangan’s album was shortlisted for the Solaris Music Prize alongside Broken Social Scene, Tegan and Sara and eventual winners Karkwa.When asked if he has any theories as to the reason behind that charmed run, Mangan says he’s puzzled by it.Mangan says his drummer, Kenton loewen.jokes that he has uncommon luck.“In many ways, 1 think that’s true,” he muses.“On the other side of things, I work really, really hard.“That’s kind of been what people have come to know me by, is having this tireless work ethic.” Indeed, Mangan takes an active interest in elements of his career some artists don't worry about.For instance, he handles some of the duties of a tour manager, because he says he otherwise “can’t really afford one.” And when it comes time to trek across Canada in a cramped van, Mangan says he does most of the driving.“I’m the youngest person in the band, but by all means I’m dad,” said Mangan, who — by the way — is also preparing to get married in September, and he “can’t believe how much work it is.” Beyond the work ethic, some say Mangan’s success is a credit to the patient way in which he’s built his career.While Mangan has often been portrayed as having come, in his words, “out of nowhere," he toured relentlessly for years before fans even on a small scale became familiar with him.As a result, he hopes the success he’s having now will prove sustainable.“I think that this guy’s going to have a very long, healthy career,” said Jeffrey Remedios, president and co-founder of Mangan’s label.Arts & Crafts.“I think it depends on the types of records he makes, but if he can continue this slow growth that he’s had, then it’ll be this solid place where he can play for thousands all over the world and be respected as this true artist.“That’ll be the plan and if something wants to come along to put him in the fast lane temporarily, we’ll be ready for that.” The Junos could prove to be that accelerant.If it happens, Mangan’s ready.“1 understand what [the Junos] can do for a career.If magically I won, then that's a lot of attention coming my way.On a very pragmatic level, it’s incredible," said Mangan, before getting philosophical.“I’ve been existing in this kind of house, and then you stand on the porch and you look across the street and there’s this other, bigger house.And you’re not sure what it’s about.And you’re not sure who lives there, and you’re not sure what’s going on in there.And you’re really comfortable in the one you're in.“But then you’re like, should I check out that bigger house?” Whether Mangan needs to imminently place a call to the proverbial movers remains to be seen.But should he emerge from Ottawa empty-handed despite his four nominations, the ever-upbeat Mangan has already spotted the silver lining.Maybe then he could go back to his familiar role, an underdog once again.“You know what, maybe it’s better if I win none,” he joked.“And then everyone will be like: Man, he never got his due!’ But if I win any, they’ll be like: He sold out.’’’ GANAS DE VIVIR LEAHY TUESDAY, APRIL 3 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4 Traditional music and dance at its best with the famous Canadian family With Les Soeurs Schmutt and La Compana de Danza y Arte Escénico de Colima in Mexico Two exuberant theatre- dance companies on the theme of death and language as seen on each side of the frontier.Lively and colourful! 819 822-9692 • WWW.CENTENNIALTHEATRE.CA ©pjséf 1*1 rxr*tes?S&BisS> .tfei Page 4 March 30 - April 5, 2012 newsroom@sherbrookerecord.com TALK Good Reads Christian Charette I don’t know exactly what it is about the dialect of the southern United States, but I’m in love with it.Maybe it's being raised on cowboy films that did the trick, or watching endless reruns of Dukes of Hazard, but that strange mix of genteel politeness and down-home aww-shuckness is music to mine ears.A perfect example of this, and one that is as extreme as you can possibly get, is the vernacular of the characters on the TV show Deadwood, which ran on HBO a few years back.When A1 Swearengen spoke, it was positively Apocalyptic.Like Shakespeare raised by sailors.James Lee Burke is a master of this language, and his series featuring Detective Dave Robichaux, which takes place primarily in Louisiana, is rife with it.In The Tin Roof Blowdown (2007), Detective Robichaux faces the most implacable of all his foes: Hurricane Katrina.Father LeBlanc, a close friend of Robichaux, disappears while attempting to rescue members of his congregation trapped in his church, as the flood engulfing New Orleans during Katrina rises to biblical proportions.In the aftermath of the flood, in a city ravaged and almost hopelessly coming to terms with the chaos and devastation of the hurricane, Robichaux is unable to shake the feeling that LeBlanc was murdered, possibly for his boat, and did not simply get swept away by the tides.Few writers could have done justice to Cue the banjo The Tin Roof Blowdown ! RcAori shia n a perns the maelstrom of fear, pain and confusion that must have reigned in New Orleans in the wake of Katrina.As a resident of the area, Burke keenly felt the horror of watching his beloved New Orleans get swept away under the dark tide, but also of seeing the paradoxical extremes only the human heart can reach in such a bleak season.It is in those moments of deepest tragedy that the heart of man turns to either the heights of compassion, or the depths of depravity, and it is with this notion that Robichaux must contend.The careful attention to language, as well as the vivid and true rendering of that unique character possessed by southern folk, especially Robichaux, is what makes any Burke novel worth reading.The canvas on which this story is painted, resembling nothing so much as a scene from a Hieronymous Bosch nightmare, is what makes The Tin Roof Blowdown a strong contender for Burke’s best.Another master of the dirty South thrill ride is Stephen Hunter.No one spins a yarn that moves as fast, and grips you as much, as Hunter.Whether it’s his stand-alone novels, or books from his Bob Lee Swagger or Earl Swagger series.Hunter has an uncanny ability to write books that feel exactly like you’re watching a movie.And I mean, come on.Earl Swagger?That’s a name and a half.I wish I was named Earl Swagger.In his opus Dirty White Boys (1995), Hunter does what he does best: craft a tale of southern-fried violence and morality.There’s something almost primeval about the South that seems to cover both characters and setting with a grimy patina of sweat and dirt, of evil slithering just beneath a skin of hypocritical morality - the genteel and self-righteously moral slave-owner.In the novel, this notion is given shape in the form of Lamar Pye, a highly charismatic, dangerously aggressive psychopath whose only care in the world is his mentally challenged cousin Odell.The more we learn about Lamar, the more we become convinced that, had he been raised in different circumstances, he might have turned out a fine man.But he wasn’t.And he sure as hell isn’t.Lamar and his cohort escape from prison and hurtle headlong into a series of confrontation with State Trooper Bud Pewtie, a cop with his own moral failings.As with all great southern crime tales, the conflict between these men takes on allegorical undertones, not unlike those found in McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men; these are not just men opposing each other, but rather full-on ideologies.The clash is terrible.But this is no simple tale of good versus evil.In the dirty oT South, nothing is as clear-cut as that.I reckon it may be God’s own country down there, but the devil’s the landlord, and no one makes it out unsullied.Upcoming Please note that the Lennoxville Library will be closed on April 6.The Bibliothèque Lennoxville Library Preschool Reading Program runs from 10:30 -11:30, and is for children 0-5 and their parents.Contact the library to sign up.Stephen While Boys ‘Stephen Hunter is the master of the tough thriller' Los Angeles Times Today, Friday the 30th of March, will be the last day of the Reading Circle.As usual, the Circle will meet from 3:30 until 4:30.Join us at noon Wednesday, April 4, for the next Books and Brown Bags meeting! Centennial Events: April In the mood for something tasty?Join us at the Food Festival Fundraiser on Saturday, April 21, from 10 a.m.to 2 p.m.! The Festival will feature a cooking demonstration by the Pampered Chet and Epicure Spices, as well as the sale of cookbooks and Tupperware.Location: Amédée Beaudoin Community Hall.Admission is Free.For information on all Lennoxville Library events, call us at 819-562-4949 or visit us at our website, www.bibliolennoxvillelibrary.ca or e-mail bibliolen@gmail.com.Check out all our past Good Reads columns at BiblioLennLibrary.WordPress.com.Ariane Moffatt minds the gap Sheila Quinn M A - it’s the Japanese word for that gap.space, or pause between.otherwise known as “negative space.” There’s that word - negative gets a bad rap these days, consistently used in reference to the opposite of all things good.In outstanding Quebec performer Ariane Moffatt’s case though, it’s really about what lies in that space.There’s no denying it - Ms.Moffatt will be the first to tell you, there’s a direct link between her arrival in her mid-thirties and a certain ownership of her life, her love, her talent and honing her craft in a way that is more personal than ever.MA, you may have noticed, is also a reflection of her initials, and the title of her fourth album, a deliciously hot series of tracks, for the first time in both French and English.Glowing, delightful, gutsy and generous with her audience, Ariane Moffatt is “rockupying” that space, in this personal, handcrafted work, which she has single-handedly put together from Montreal’s renowned Hotel2Tango and Planète studios.Written, directed, produced, and performed by Ariane Moffatt, MA will be the main focus of her Sherbrooke show, this evening at Sherbrooke’s Granada Theatre.Not to be missed, Ariane Moffatt’s showmanship and ability to share is rare, unusual, steamy and fun. TALK newsroom@sherbrookerecord.com March 30 - April 5.2012 Pago 5 Neal McCoy is at the top of his game WIKIMEDIA /£* AhiVV tm m Country Connection Jessie Aulis After a seven-year hiatus country singer Neal McCoy has released a new album.Country singer Blake Shelton, his wife, Miranda Lambert and Brent Rowan got together to produce McCoy’s new collection titled XII.The couple is fond of McCoy, they even picked him to entertain their guests at their wedding reception.They are not the only ones, since McCoy was recently listed among the USO’s Top 10 Performers of all time alongside such icons as Bob Hope, John Wayne and Marilyn Monroe.The fact is that he has the ability to connect with people and get them up out of their seats to sing along.On XII (Twelve) we find a dozen songs that demonstrate the versatility of Neal McCoy and also showcase why he was one of the best vocalists from the 1990s.On XII, McCoy sounds better than ever.He voice hasn’t changed and he is evidently at the top of his game.This album offers plenty of melodies and great stories to which we can relate and that’ll make you feel good.It is the perfect album for the sunny days of summer.The production from Brent Rowan, Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert is dead on, and it all adds up to an excellent album that could bring McCoy back to mainstream country music.Nashville’s top songwriters such as Song of the Year winner Tom Douglas, Rivers Rutherford, Jamey Johnson, Allen Shamblin, and new hitmakers Luke Laird, Brett Eldredge, George Terren and Barry Dean have all contributed tracks for the album XII.“A-OK,” the first single released, sets the album’s tone.The tune starts with some pure Andy Griffith whistling and finger snaps before going into a dazzling chorus.This song was written by Brett Eldredge, Barry Dean, and Luke Laird.This infectious number is about not taking our troubles too seriously.McCoy sings, “Save your troubles for another day/ everything will be alright.” It also features Shelton and Lambert on harmonies.“Real Good Feel Good” is another positive up-tempo song written by Dallas Davidson, Sam Hunt, and Jimmy Richie.It is clearly McCoy delivering a number that could become a radio hit.Co-written by Jamey Johnson and David Tolliver, “Mouth” is a fun song and traditional country set to a Bob Willis swing arrangement.It is humour-filled and could very well be a song that Brad Paisley would release.Here, McCoy sings about a few embarrassing anecdotes such as asking a larger woman if she’s pregnant, and also mistaking a he for a she when inquiring about a dance.“I can stick my foot in my mouth/1 mean all five toes don’t even leave the heel sticking out,” he sings with feistiness.There’s also a gorgeous ballad first recorded by Ronnie Milsap and Restless Heart, titled “Every Eire." It truly is a beautiful, haunting country ballad.Noteworthy is the number “Judged a Man By His Woman,” on which McCoy sings the praises of the opposite sex.-This sweet and laid-back ballad should be a hit with his legions of female fans.On “Borderline Crazy” mariachi horns and nylon-string guitars are the perfect complement to McCoy’s wish to go south.This one brings us into the Jimmy Buffett-Kenny Chesney island mode.He sings, “Been countin’ margar-itas, yeah, instead of sheep.” There’s a funny twist on “That’s How She Gets," as McCoy describes his lady’s erratic behavior.“That’s how she gets when 1 drink," he sings with humor.“Shotgun Rider,” a track co-written by Ben Hayslip, Rhett Akins, Dallas Davidson and Keith Anderson, is a radio friendly rocker about a gal who can be both friend and lover.The album truly offers a good balance with a few ballads, some beautiful love songs and the mandatory “bar songs." Country music fans have enjoyed McCoy’s music since he first came on the scene in the early 1990s.His live shows are high energy and McCoy always aims to please.And he succeeds.1 lore McCoy sticks to the same pattern that first brought him to fame and it works again.He never over rocks the tempo, yet he keeps it current with lots of steel, piano and fiddles thrown in the mix.The last song on the album is a heart-tugging ballad titled "Van Gogh.” This is the most outstanding song on the collection.It somehow reminds us of Lorrie Morgan's “Something in Red." This number is nothing short of a career defining song.It opens with some striking piano riffs and it is about how our best work is often the result of trials and errors.Son-ically it is masterpiece that deserves to be widely heard.This is a solid album of well-chosen songs with such a variety of styles that there is not a bad moment.American music pioneer, bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs dies in Nashville at age 88 By Chris Talbott THE ASSOCIATED PRESS It may be impossible to overstate the importance of blue-grass legend Earl Scruggs to American music.A pioneering banjo player who helped create modern country music, his sound is instantly recognizable and as intrinsically wrapped in the tapestry of the genre as Johnny Cash’s baritone or Hank Williams’ heartbreak.Scruggs died Wednesday morning at age 88 of natural causes.The legacy he helped build with bandleader Bill Monroe, guitarist Lester Flatt and the rest of the Blue Grass Boys was evident all around Nashville, where he died in an area hospital.His string-bending, mind-blowing way of picking helped transform a regional sound into a national passion.“It’s not just bluegrass, it’s American music,” bluegrass fan turned country star Dierks Bentley said.“There’s 17- or 18-year-old kids turning on today’s country music and hearing that banjo and they have no idea where that came from.That sound has probably always been there for them and they don’t realize someone invented that three-finger roll style of playing.You hear it everywhere.” Country music has transcended its regional roots, become a billion-dollâr music and tourist enterprise, and evolved far beyond the classic sound Monroe and The Blue Grass Boys blasted out over the radio on The Grand Ole Opry on Dec.8, 1945.Though he would eventually influence American culture in wide-ranging ways, Scruggs had no way of knowing this as he nervously prepared for his first show with Monroe.The 21-year-old wasn’t sure how his new picking style would go over.“I’d heard The Grand Ole Opry and there was tremendous excitement for me just to be on The Grand Ole Opry,” Scruggs recalled during a 2010 interview at Ryman Auditorium, where that “big bang” moment occurred.“I just didn’t know if or how well I’d be accepted because thcre’d never been anybody to play banjo like me here.There was Stringbean and Grandpa Jones.Most of them were comedians.” There was nothing jokey about the way Scruggs attacked his “fancy five-string banjo,” as Opry announcer George D.Hayes called it.In a performance broadcast to much of the country but unfortunately lost to history, he scorched the earth and instantly changed country music.With Monroe on mandolin and Flatt on guitar, the pace was a real jolt to attendees and radio listeners far away, and in some ways the speed and volume he laid down predicted the power of electric music.Tut Taylor, a friend of the Scruggs family who heard that first performance on the radio in his Georgia home, called it an unbelievably raucous moment “a lot like some of the rock ‘n’ roll things they had, you know.But this was a new sound.It was a pretty sound and a welcome sound." Scruggs’ use of three fingers — in place of the limited clawhammer style once prevalent — elevated the banjo from a part of the rhythm section — or even a comedian’s prop — to a lead instrument that was as versatile as the guitar and far more flashy.Country great Porter Wagoner probably summed up Scruggs’ importance best of all: “I always felt like Earl was to the five-string banjo what Babe Ruth was to baseball.He is the best there ever was, and the best there ever will be.” Page 6 March 30 - April 5, 2012 TV Listings TALK The evolution of Cesare Borgia; Montreal-born star of The Borgias says his character has ‘slowly become a man’ The Borgias returns Sunday, April 8 on Bravo! At 10 ET By Alex Strachan Postmedia News At a quick glance, Francois Arnaud resembles the 15th-century Italian nobleman Cesare Borgia, his character in The Borgias, as famously, and allegedly, painted by the Renaissance portrait artist, Altobello Melone.Melone’s painting is on display at Bergamo, Italy’s Accademia Carrara gallery, and Arnaud has Cesare’s aquiline nose, neatly trimmed goatee, and the lean physique and intense stare of someone who’s constantly watching others’ every move.Montreal-born Arnaud, a student for three years at Montreal’s Conservatoire d'art dramatique, may physically resemble the Renaissance cardinal and commander of Pope Alexander Vi’s papal armies, even in the striking light of a mid-winter afternoon in California’s San Fernando Valley.When Arnaud begins talking, though, the person who emerges is very much a man of his time, a 21st-century career actor from Quebec who, at age 26, has spent much of the last two years working in Budapest, Hungary, on an Emmy-and Gemini Award-winning costume epic written and directed in part by the Irish novelist and Academy Award-winning filmmaker, Neil Jordan.Arnaud is quiet and soft-spoken, his francophone lilt evident in every word.He is comfortable working in two languages.In back-to-back years, he starred in the French-language film.Les grandes chaleurs (Heaf Wave), adapted from the play by Michel Marc Bouchard, then followed that with a supporting role in Xavier Dolan's J’ai tue ma mere (I Killed My Mother).The Borgias, he says, has affected his life, and career, in countless ways.Cesare (pronounced chezz-array), was the son of Rodrigo Borgia, elected Pope Alexander VI, played by Jeremy Irons, and older brother to Lucrezia Borgia, played by Holliday Grainger.“I’m really growing with the part, as an actor and as a person,” Arnaud said, sitting in the shade of a veranda overlooking a sprawling grove of California palms.The San Fernando Valley is a long way from the chilly winters of Budapest.“Cesare was very innocent in appearance, in a way, and he’s slowly become a man.I think I’ve grown a lot with the part; it’s taught me a lot.” In The Borgias’ second season, begin- ning April 8 on Bravo!, Cesare will become a kingmaker, murderer and Machiavellian schemer to rival Machiavelli himself.Cesare will also - to his mind -right the wrongs committed against his younger sister, Lucrezia, even if that involves murder and mayhem.Arnaud has a younger sister of his own.In that one, small instance - an older brother’s natural, instinctive protectiveness toward his younger sister-he can relate to Cesare.“I am very protective of my own sister.She’s my only sibling.As brother and sister, you can be a bit rough with each other, but then, you’re also together against the rest of the world.” “But then, obviously, in Cesare and Lucrezia’s relationship, there’s something there that’s a little bit more.It never delves into incest, as people suggest, but they’re each other’s first love, I think.They have a deep, deep love for each other.“ Familial loyalty aside, Arnaud has little in common with his character.“I’m not a violent person at all.I’m not.Sometimes it’s hard, because I do feel some rage in me, but I try as hard as possible to rein things in.Cesare does not shy away from conflict at all, which is admirable, in a way.But it’s not me.” Arnaud feels he came into his own as an actor, during The Borgias’ second season.At first, he admits, it was “terrifying, just terrifying” to find himself acting opposite Irons, a stage-trained veteran of the Royal Shakespeare Company and winner of Tony, Emmy and Golden Globe Awards, in addition to his 1990 Oscar for best actor, for Reversal of Fortune.That was at the very beginning, though, when The Borgias first started filming during the fall and winter of 2010.This past season was different.“It was terrifying, but not for long,” Arnaud said, of Irons.“He’s very hands-on about everything.He doesn’t only care about his performance; he cares about the scenes, and that’s what I love about him.At times, he’ll take me aside, and now I do the same, actually.We’re always asking what we can do to make it better.‘OK we shot it once, what do you think we can do to take it up a level?’ Watching him is very inspiring.I’m learning a lot, though I’m not trying to be anything like him.He’s his own man, and, as an actor, sometimes you don’t Cont’d on page 12 WEEKDAY MORNING 10 AM 10:30 11AM 11:30 WCAX 0 WPTZ 0 CBMT O 206 301 News Newschannel 5 Today at 6AM CBS This Morning CHLT O 107 718 [Today _____ CBCNewsNow Turbo Dogs Cat in the Hat Bo on the Go! 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