12/9/2023 0 Comments Mike smith actor![]() “We’ll be on a camera that’ll be transmitting to a screen, and then we’ll eventually end up on-stage for some reason. “We’ll be doing some sort of a thing that probably starts backstage,” he says. He’s hoping OLP will let him perform a country song he wrote as Bubbles called “Kitties Are So Nice”. Local TPB fans should note that he-along with Tremblay and Wells-will also be taking the stage at the Our Lady Peace concert on Saturday (January 25) at GM Place. While shooting a segment of that episode last October, Smith actually got on-stage with Rush during a concert at Toronto’s Air Canada Centre. One of the upcoming shows stars Canadian rock-guitar legend Alex Lifeson of Rush in a story in which Bubbles wins a contest and becomes Lifeson’s guitar tech. Showcase is currently broadcasting Trailer Park Boys reruns on Sundays at 9 p.m., and all new episodes-the third season-will begin airing on April 20. He’s not mentally challenged like most people think.” But he definitely knows right from wrong, and he’s a pretty loyal friend. So he’s one of these guys that maybe doesn’t have a lot of social skills. “But according to the show’s back story, Bubbles was abandoned by his parents when he was five and just sort of grew up by himself, living in sheds and stuff. “I’d say there’s quite a bit, to be totally honest,” offers the 30-year-old Smith with a laugh. So how much of Bubbles’s personality is akin to that of his creator? He might rip off and sell the odd shopping cart to make ends meet, but other than that he’s a real sweet guy. He’s not out to hurt anybody he just wants to smoke a little reef, share some of Julian’s rum ’n’ Coke, and pet his beloved kitties. While most of the seedy individuals portrayed in Trailer Park Boys are quite obnoxious, Bubbles stands out as someone the audience can sympathize with. “I was in a band called Sandbox for about 10 years,” notes Smith, “and I had four or five characters I used to do on the tour bus, just goofin’ around, and I think that’s probably where Bubbles started.” One day on the set Smith was joking around in the Bubbles persona, and Clattenburg decided to write the googly-eyed wonder into the series. So that was good news.”Ī native of Thorburn, Nova Scotia, Smith first met Wells and Tremblay in 2000 while mixing sound on director Mike Clattenburg’s Trailer Park Boys feature, before it was picked up by Showcase and turned into a half-hour television series. He said all that’ll happen is I’ll get headaches. So I got worried about it and went to an ophthalmologist this year, and he said that there’s no way I could physically alter my vision. You get like plus-one and plus-two at the drugstore, and they’re pretty strong. ![]() ![]() “Nineteen-point-seventy-five is the power of ’em. ![]() “Oh yeah, they’re nasty,” claims Smith, on the line from Halifax, where the show is filmed. Even if they do make the actor suffer for his art. They may be a cheap gag-Smith’s ex-girlfriend picked up the specs at a flea market down in Texas-but there’s something inherently funny about heavily magnified peepers, especially on an already goofy-looking guy. As for his slow-witted partner in crime (and buddy in jail) Ricky (Robb Wells), there are chuckles to be had just watching him cadge cigarettes from the park’s lesser hooligans (“Smokes now, hurry up”) or twitch when he gets teased for resembling a pompadoured hypnotist (“Hey Reveen!”).Īnd then there’s the lovable Bubbles (Mike Smith), whose super-thick eyeglasses alone nearly steal the show. Whether he’s hanging around the trailer thinking of illegal ways to retire early with his “Freedom 35” plan or firing his pistol during a harebrained heist, he never lets go of his drink. Like Julian’s (John Paul Tremblay’s) ever-present glass of rum ’n’ Coke. In Trailer Park Boys-Showcase TV’s low-budget mockumentary series about dope-smoking, foul-mouthed lowlifes inhabiting a rundown (is there any other kind?) trailer park-it’s the little things that make you laugh. ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT, JAN.
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