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But growing up in the Central Okanagan, Brandy Kopp just assumed she would be married with kids by the time she was 22. Now 27, the Kelowna Christian School graduate has been married for just two years, and is keeping herself busy with a burgeoning film career. “Things just started falling in place,” she said in a recent telephone interview. “I thought, let‘s chase this a while and see what happens – and I fell in love with it.” Kopp, who now splits her time between Vancouver and LA, grew up in Lake Country, West Kelowna and Kelowna‘s Mission, attending school at Wood Lake Elementary and Hudson Road Elementary before attending high school at Kelowna Christian School. While she was involved in drama class in high school, she says now that it was more for attention as a teenager than for a passion for the art. That started to change in her later teens, when Kopp began realizing she actually had talent. The first hint was when her family took a trip to Disneyland, when Kopp was 17. Standing in line, a movie director was just ahead of them and told her parents she should try acting. While they brushed it off as something that happens all the time, Kopp now understands, in retrospect, what the director might have seen in her. “I was somewhat precocious. As the oldest of four kids, and the responsibility that comes with that, you grow up quickly. I was a bit more womany. Outgoing and not shy. I‘ve worked in casting and realize now that it‘s hard to find – acting so it‘s not put on, being fake, but acting real.” When she got home, Kopp joined what is now called Allen International Models and attended Faces West, an international model and talent convention. Standing at an unlofty five foot, three inches, she didn‘t hold out much hope for a modeling career, and entered some acting competitions for something to do. “I thought I didn‘t have much of a chance, but I won most of the ones I entered,” she said. Shortly after, she started taking small jobs in Vancouver. She got her first movie role, in a movie called Cheat, at age 18. “It was not a very big role – it was a very small role – but I had to shoot for two months. It was a really cool experience to see what it‘s all about and kind of be thrown into it. It was good to have good cast members to teach me.” She‘s since appeared in The Butterfly Effect (with Kutcher) and Stealing Sinatra (with Arquette and Macy), Whisper, After School Special and Underclassman. She‘s also appeared on a number of television series, including Supernatural, Smallville and The Assistants. She will also be seen in the upcoming, made-for-television sci-fi thriller Goblin. Kopp plays the mother of a young infant in a town that is haunted by a monstrous goblin. The townspeople want to sacrifice the baby to the goblin to appease it. Kopp says her preferred roles are “the kinds of roles Rachel McAdams plays.” “I love every role Rachel McAdams plays,” she admitted. Her next role, however, will be as a tough girl in an apocalyptic action flick. Kopp has just been cast in the upcoming feature film thriller The Riot, starring David Anders and Shawn Roberts. “The movie is about the psyche of human nature. It‘s very Lord of the Flies – if the centre of a group fights, it spreads throughout the group until no one knows why they‘re rioting. The energy just takes over. It‘s not your typical shoot‘em up,” Kopp said. While she thinks she‘s going to have a lot of fun playing an action heroine and running around with a gun, in general Kopp says she identifies with the “girl next door” roles “The bad girl is fun, too, but I like the girl next door. I just really like those films.” Perhaps it‘s because she is, she reports, the proverbial girl next door. I like to have a beer, watch TV, go shopping – I‘m not full of myself or take myself too seriously.” And as far as former classmates, neighbours, friends and family living in Kelowna are concerned, she will always be just that – no matter how high her star rises. Top of Page |
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September 9, 2010, 1:47 pm |