Jason Priestley hit the road for Cas & Dylan, his feature directing debut opening the Whistler Film Festival Wednesday, and found himself in familiar territory.
In fact, the Winnipeg-to-B.C. route he took while making the comedy-drama with Oscar winner Richard Dreyfuss and Orphan Black’s Tatiana Maslany, was the same one he had been on with his dad more than 30 year previously.
“It was horrible but it was kind of awesome at the same time,” the Vancouver-born Priestley recalled of the seemingly endless car trip west in 1979 as a 10-year-old. “It was a business trip. My dad was a hatchet man for a textile company that fired a salesman in Winnipeg and he had to pick up his company car and drive it back.”
