DRIVE BACK HOME - CATCHING UP WITH ALAN CUMMING

Drive Back Home might inspire you to hit the road with a loved one.

Inspired by true life events, Drive back Home is a new comedy-drama set in the the winter of 1970, Weldon, (Charlie Creed-Miles) a cantankerous, small town plumber from rural New Brunswick, gets a phone call in the middle of the night to discover that  his estranged, gay brother  Perley (Alan Cumming) is in jail after being arrested for having sex in a public park.

So Weldon must drive his beat-up work truck 1000 miles to Toronto to pick him up and bring him back to their childhood home. It’s a road tip of self-discovery and tense emotions.

Written and directed by Michael Clowater, the film was shot primarily in North Bay, Ontario, It’s apersonal story for Clowater who based it on his own father and uncle.

“I wanted to take archetypal characters that would never be in the same movie together and then make them a family,” said director Clowater. “Because that’s the truth of what family often is – very different people bound together by where they came from.”

Getting Tony and Emmy Award winning actor on board to play the scarred gay brother Perley was a coup for the production with Cumming adding his brand of charm, warmth and depth to the character.

I had the opportunity to chat with Alan Cumming to find out how he got involved with this Canadian drama and much more.

Drive Back Home opens in select theatres December 6th.