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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Chigaze@mstdn.ca ("Paul Turnbull 🇨🇦") wrote:

It's been incredibly inspiring to see the tributes from indigenous actors to Graham Greene. To hear about how much he mentored and inspired them has been humbling.

#Canada #Indigenous #GrahamGreene

Facebook post by Kaniehtiio Horn including a photo of her and Graham Greene on the set of her film "Seeds" ••• When I met Graham it was on a Syfy show called Defiance and I was dressed like a fucking orange alien with dreads. I let everyone kiss his ass and then I went up to him and introduced myself. I said "hey I'm Kaniehtiio, I'm Mohawk from Kahnawake. I just need to tell you how much me and my family loved you in Clearcut, I watched it so many times as a kid." "Whoa, that's pretty dark." He said and chuckled. I think he dug that I was straight up with him and his stardom didn't make me act all weird. I remember thinking it was so cool that he blasted classical music in his trailer. We reached out to each other on email over the years. He let me call him Uncle G and I didn't have any real family or older people looking out for me so that meant a lot. When I was writing Seeds it just made all the sense to cast him as my spirit guide, as himself, Graham Greene. LOL I can't believe he even agreed to be in my movie. He was like "whatever you need my niece". Fuckin' guy. I hope he's at peace. What an absolute legend we just lost. Konnoronhkhwa Uncle. Until we meet again.