The Man Booker prize winner has filmed a cameo appearance in forthcoming Canadian movie Score: A Hockey Musical
by: Alison Flood
She's won the Man Booker prize for her fiction, been awarded 16 honorary degrees and fights on behalf of authors' rights as vice-president of International PEN. But Margaret Atwood has just completed what could be her toughest challenge yet: singing in a musical about ice hockey.
The author of The Blind Assassin and The Handmaid's Tale revealed last week that she has a singing cameo in the Canadian film Score: A Hockey Musical, the story of a teenage hockey phenomenon whose intellectual mother, played by Olivia Newton-John, is dismayed by his ascent to fame. "Yes, I sang, shameless me," said Atwood on her blog, posting photographs from the film's ice-rink set. "We were all in an arena freezing our feet off [including] the star, Noah Reid, and the director, Mike McGowan, and Jody Colero, who got me into it, and a jolly supporting cast of thousands! Hey, I signed a hockey stick," she added.
Atwood plays herself in the movie. She said on Twitter that her fee for appearing in the musical was going to the Pelee Island Bird Observatory. "Lotsa hockey greats, and then there's me..." the author added. Out in October in Canada, Score's cast features a host of other Canadian celebrities, including singer Nelly Furtado.
Atwood has proved in the past that she isn't afraid of performing in public, appearing in a one-hour show based on her post-apocalyptic novel The Year of the Flood last year. Her enthusiasm for ice hockey also led to the following, rather startling "celebrity tip" on a popular Canadian TV show.
from: The Guardian
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