If you're a former hockey player who looks mean, scary or ugly, or you're not, but you've always wanted to be in movies, you're wanted at the rink this weekend.
Open auditions for roles in the upcoming biopic about the life of Bill "Goldie" Goldthorpe - the real-life inspiration behind the Ogie Ogilthorpe character in the 1977 movie "Slapshot" - are being held on the ice at the Elgar Petersen Arena (EPA) on February 11 from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
The main roles the production company behind this movie is looking to fill are those of 10 skaters to play the home team - the Syracuse Bulldogs - when scenes are filmed at the EPA on February 19.
They're hoping to get some local people, so the crowd, in attendance for a Humboldt Broncos' home game, will really go wild for them during filming, noted Jenn Fafard, marketing director for the Humboldt Broncos.
For these roles, the production company is looking for people who have played hockey at around the Junior A level - they have to know how to skate, and play hockey well - and they really want players who look like the rough, tough hockey players of the 1970s.
"If you're mean, scary looking or ugly, we want you," Fafard laughed.
There's no age requirement, she added.
Besides the hockey players, there are a few other roles - non-speaking and stand-in - that need to be filled as well.
Anyone - any age, either gender - who is interested in being involved in this project is asked to come down to the rink next weekend.
However, first, you have to register with Jenn at the Bronco office - the cut-off is Friday at 5 p.m
"You can't just show up at the rink. You have to register," Fafard stressed.
Meanwhile, Fafard is working on promotions for the night of filming, to take place during the Broncos' last home game of the regular season.
"There should be many sponsors and promotions," she said. "More announcements will be coming."
Johnny's Bistro and the Pioneer Moter Hotel have already come on board, she noted, and will be supplying students at all three of Humboldt's elementary schools with tickets to the game that night.
It was in December that the Humboldt Broncos announced that a film crew making a movie about one of the most infamous enforcers in hockey would be filming at one of their games - between periods and after the game.
Filming will also occur at the Humboldt courthouse, but at the rink is where public support is needed.
The Broncos are hoping for a full house of fans dressed in their best 1970s gear, to suit the period of the movie.
Goldthorpe himself is to attend the game that night, and actually take part in the Broncos' annual shootout.
Goldthorpe, a left-winger born in Ontario in 1953, played 11 years of professional hockey from 1972 to 1984. In those years, he racked up 1,132 penalty minutes in 194 games, earning him the reputation as "the wildest, meanest, most unpredictable player in hockey."
He was also a wild man off the ice, jailed 38 times in 17 cities.
Now reformed, he works in construction in San Diego.
