![]() Then he made a personal connection: “This is what it was like for me to be a filmmaker with my friends,” Johnson said of the young men working on the phone in very small offices, in garages and at the University of Waterloo. After reading the book by Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff, “Losing the Signal,” he wasn’t even sure why producers wanted it turned into a film. When the 37-year-old was approached to make the film, he didn’t know much about the company. I didn’t have a cellphone until I was quite old, though.” Johnson, on the other hand, had never used a BlackBerry in his life: “I never understood them. “I thought, ‘What a cool way for us to do our first thing together by telling this f-king super Canadian story.’” When the Montreal-raised Baruchel found out that Toronto filmmaker Johnson was making the movie, he had to be a part of it, Baruchel said in an interview in downtown Toronto. ![]() Not many know it was a Canadian company’s success story, but Baruchel was well aware: “it was an important part of my connection to it,” said the 41-year-old, who still tries to use Canadian-made products when he can. The Ottawa-born actor stars in the film “BlackBerry,” which charts the rise and demise of the world’s first smartphone.īaruchel plays Mike Lazaridis who, with his best friend Douglas Fregin (Matt Johnson), co-founded the Waterloo-headquartered Research In Motion, maker of the BlackBerry phone. “Life is not better for having one of these,” he said as he looked at his phone. Up until two years ago, actor Jay Baruchel was using a BlackBerry.
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