Good Morning, Gratuitous Pier-Gabriel Lajoie

Far far far too long since I've checked in on Quebecois actor and model Pier-Gabriel Lajoie, who co-starred in my favorite Bruce La Bruce movie Gerontophilia way back in 2013 -- how is that movie about to be a decade old already??? Anyway it's not really my fault as Lajoie hasn't really done a lot of acting in that time, and none of it was in anything that made its way south of the border as far as I can recognize off of IMDb. But that's about to change as he's in the new thing from Xavier Dolan!

(Took ya long enough, Xav.) It's not a movie, though -- Dolan's made himself a fancy five-episode prestige series, he has. Described as a Hitchcockian psychological thriller and based on a play by the writer Marc Brouchard, who also wrote the basis of Dolan's film Tom at the Farm (aka my favorite thing Dolan's ever done) the series is titled, deep breath, The Night Where Laurier Gaudreault Woke Up, and it stars Dolan himself as well as Julie Le Breton and Patrick Hivon...

... the latter of whom recently caught my eye in the flick Babysitter -- a movie I couldn't stand, but he caught my eye anyway -- which happened to be directed by and starred Monia Chokri, who was the star of a couple of Dolan's earlier films (Heartbeats and Laurence Anyways, that is). Who'd have thought the Quebecois Film Industry so incestuous, har har. Anyway the series will be premiering on Canal+ in January so we'll have to wait and see when the U.S. gets it, but there is now a trailer!

I'm not even sure if I noticed Pier-Gabriel in there? The series is set in two different time periods (in the 1990s and in 2019) and he's apparently in the flashback portion; he's also only in a single episode, so who knows how much. But seeing his name in the cast-list brought me joy anyway, and I'm sure Dolan will play up his prettiness when he's got him in front of his lens at least; Xavier is very good at that. Until then though I went and gathered up some photos of Pier-Gabriel that have never been posted here, and that's how we will spend this morning! Hit the jump and enjoy...