“There’s so much good stuff, and that’s one of the reasons why, in my head, I haven’t left and I won’t leave,” she says. Not that she has any plans to leave Quebec - at least not permanently. “It’s been a very exciting year, I must say,” she says. And on the morning of our interview, she phones from Vancouver, where she is shooting the Mark Palansky-helmed Rememory with Peter Dinklage and Julia Ormond. In addition to filming Orphan Black in Toronto and X Company in Budapest last year, she shot French-language film Miséricorde in the tumbleweed town of Matagami, Quebec, and Tonic Immobility - her first film speaking French-from-France - in Brussels. They don’t know that you’ve been, you know, busy with other things.”Īnd Brochu definitely has been busy. “Because they kind of feel like you haven’t worked in four years. I hope you get a little part soon,'” Brochu laughs. “Sometimes I come back to Quebec and somebody in a cafe will be like, ‘Oh, um, you haven’t been on TV in a while, we haven’t seen you. Now that her English-language career has exploded - with a lead role on CBC’s World War II spy drama X Company, a three-season stint on cult sci-fi series Orphan Black, and a supporting film role opposite Tobey Maguire in last year’s Pawn Sacrifice - she finds that some people in Quebec fear she’s hit the unemployment line. She was viewed, she says, as a “blank slate.” When the Montreal native first began acting in English four years ago, few people in anglophone Canada - and even fewer in the United States - knew about her impressive French-language career in Quebec, which includes not only extensive TV credits, but film work with top-tier directors Denis Villenueve ( Polytechnique), Jean-Marc Vallee ( Café de Flore), and Xavier Dolan ( Tom à la ferme). Sometimes Evelyne Brochu’s career gets lost, quite literally, in translation.
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