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Adam Harrington’s Sea Change

Adam Harrington plays a chauvinistic TV host who torments Katherine Heigl’s character in the rom-com The Ugly Truth. It’s not the first time Hamilton, Ontario, native Harrington has watched Heigl squirm — they both appeared in the ill-fated slasher pic Valentine back in 2001.

 

“We survived that,” says the 36-year-old actor on the phone from his L.A. home. “We both kind of commiserated about Valentine, but it definitely did stuff for me as well as her, and it was nice to see her and to be able to congratulate her on what she’s accomplished. She was interested in what’s happened with me, and where I am now.”

 

Now he’s in Los Angeles, having moved to California two years ago after working steadily in Canada for the past decade. The move down south was a big change for Harrington, but not as drastic as his career move from marine biologist to actor. It was his grandfather’s passing that woke Harrington up and convinced him to leave the crustaceans behind and follow his dream of becoming an actor.

 

“It’s interesting when I’m in meetings and it comes up because I’m discovering most people don’t go from marine biology to acting,” he says with a laugh, “although lots of people when they were kids wanted at some point to become a marine biologist.”

 

And does he think his grandfather would be proud of the career he’s carving out for himself? “Even when my grandfather was alive he was proud of me,” says Harrington. “I think in the manual of being a parent and a grandparent there are certain lines you are suppose to tell a child, and one of them is ‘You will be a success.’ And another one is ‘I am proud of you, I love you and I have all the confidence in you.’ Those are things parents are meant to say.”


Ingrid Randoja


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