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MIPCOM: Hollywood casting a wider talent net, reeling in Canadians, others


CANNES – Abbie Cornish doesn't take kindly to be called a gold-digger. "She sets up services in Dawson City," the Australian Robocop star said of the female lead, Belinda Mulroney, she plays in Discovery Channel's first scripted mini-series Klondike, which shoots in Alberta. "She's also a real warrior, a survivor, someone driven by her heart and soul and instincts," Cornish adds about her character and others in Klondike that are drawn from the Charlotte Gray novel Gold Diggers: Striking it Rich in the Klondike. Cornish isn't the only foreign actor that stars in the U.S. cable drama co-produced by Discovery,...