Prolific movie star Jennifer Tilly also a big-time poker winner

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005

By John Hartl
Special to The Seattle Times

Jennifer Tilly makes so many independent movies that her life sometimes revolves around film festivals. In fact, she made "Saint Ralph" (opening here Friday at several theaters), while she was promoting another low-budget picture (a spoof of Canadian show-biz called "Hollywood North") at the Toronto Film Festival.

"I was getting ready for Toronto when I got this call about a movie that was going to be shooting there," she said by phone from Los Angeles. "A lot of actors were in town for the festival, so they planned the shooting schedule around that."

At first she was wary that the picture might be something cheap and silly — she imagined "Murder at the Toronto Film Festival" — but reading director Matthew McGowan's script convinced her that she'd have to find the time to do it.

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