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We’ll start with you, Phillip. How did you reach to be involved in Wildhood?Phillip Lewitski: Well, I was on a route trip with my mother, visiting family, and I was sent the script, and we were on our way back. We had about a seventeen-hour-drive and it was the first script that we had ever read together, front to back. By the end of it, and it was just me and my mother for some reason, by the end of it we were both in tears and so moved by Brett’s words. That was the first hour that I ever saw the material. Then I met Josh at a casting, or a “chemistry read”, and then here we are.
And you, Josh?
Joshua Odjick: Me and Phillip connected to each other for the first moment at the chemistry peruse, and that was prefer a year prior, before I got cast. When I first got in touch with the script I was, at the time, couch-surfing. When I was reading this, I was like, ‘wow, this is such a attractive, beautiful story’. I just knew I had to do the audition. When I got cast, it was more than a year later, during Covid, , around April, that’s when things were in lockdown and I had to do the audition tape. Yeah. It was a bit tricky during that time,
Calgary-born actor Phillip Lewitski shines in two-spirit coming-of-age drama, Wildhood
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Phillip Lewitski was on his way home from visiting family in Manitoba when he read writer-director Bretten Hannam’s screenplay for the powerful coming-of-age drama Wildhood.
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