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All the world's a rink
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Maclean's |
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August 24, 1994 |
On the ice, former world-champion figure skater Kurt Browning is
renowned for his artistic impressions - the motion he conveys by
blending grace and physicality. But last week in Toronto, Browning put
his sense of artistry to work in a different forum - in front of a TV
camera for a segment of the teen drama series Ready or Not. In the
show, which will air this fall on the CanWest Global network, the
28-year-old from Caroline, Alta., plays - of all things - a figure
skater who demonstrates the value of perserverance to two teenage
girls (Laura Bertram and Lani Billard). For the part, he had to fall
on cue. "It's one of those really unnatural things to get your body to
do," Browning says. "It's like, 'Wait a minute, I'm actually trying to
fall?'" Now a professional skater, after his retirement from the
amateur ranks in February, Browning acknowledges that "it would be fun
to do some more acting." And he even offers a fantasy movie role:
"Yeah, the city ices over, and me and Bruce Willis skate around
killing bad guys." Sure, maybe in Die Hard 8.
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