Episode 136: Lorne Cardinal – PART ONE

Millions of viewers around the world know Lorne Cardinal as Sergeant Davis Quinton on Corner Gas, the iconic television series turned record-breaking movie turned cartoon – and while Corner Gas is the stuff of legend and Davis is an essential part of it all, Davis doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface in revealing who Lorne is as an artist and human being. Lorne is an actor, a writer, a director, a producer, and a voice actor with more than 100 film, television, and stage credits to his name. He recently appeared in Kayak to Klemtu, a performance that earned him the Best Actor Award at the American Indian Film Festival, as well as Kathleen Hepburn’s superb feature film, Never Steady, Never Still and Florian Haberdl and Luna Ferguson’s mesmerizing short film, Henry’s Heart, about a man grappling with love, loss, and identity at the end of his life. Lorne voices Grandpa Nat in the Peabody Award-winning Molly of Denali, and he’s recurring as Nelson Skye, the granddad in the central family in Dick Wolf’s FBI: Most Wanted for NBC.Lorne’s remarkable career warrants two episodes of the YVR Screen Scene Podcast. In Part One, Lorne reflects on his childhood, his paradigm-shifting experience as a photojournalist, his involvement in the first-ever all-Indigenous production of a Shakespeare play on a Canadian A-stage, and the innumerable ways in which art and politics are intertwined. Says Lorne: “When you’re born brown in this country, especially as an Indigenous person, you’re political right off the bat.” Look for Part Two in your podcast feeds. Episode sponsor: Fish Flight Entertainment