Maxim Gaudette

Actor, Incendies

Maxim Gaudette played Simon in Denis Villeneuve's Incendies, the film that set Villeneuve on the road to Hollywood and earned an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. If you have seen it, you know the ending. You do not forget it. We talked about shooting that story: what it takes to play the discovery at the centre of it, working with Villeneuve before Sicario and Arrival and Dune, and how a film this devastating gets built without tipping its hand too early. Incendies is one of those films I push on people knowing full well it is going to wreck them. Gaudette was inside it, years before Villeneuve became Villeneuve.