Christopher Plummer reflects on roots ahead of Canadian Screen Awards

Of all the revered roles Christopher Plummer has portrayed over the years – Capt. Georg von Trapp, King Lear, Macbeth, to name but a few – the most exciting one for him was that of Henry V. He played the part during his 1956 debut at Ontario’s Stratford Festival – in a tent, no less – alongside a group of “superb” French-Canadian actors he still misses “dreadfully,” he says.