MAN POWER
Flare magazine, February 1990

DJE

David Elliott
actor

In Street Legal, he sometimes wears a strategically-placed sheet. On the block at the Multiple Sclerosis Society's third annual Bachelor Classic Auction earlier this winter, he affected a lopsided grin. And in public, people assume he's tall enough and brawny enough to be a cop. But David Elliott doesn't like to throw his good looks around. In fact, he is flat out tired of discussing them, auction or no. He had plenty of time to wear out the subject playing the male stripper in B-Movie: The Play for nearly two years in Toronto, and on tour in Vancouver, Edmonton, and the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland. Being a hunk is only a temporary forte. After all, fresh out of Ryerson's Theatre School in 1983, the then 23-year-old Elliott was accepted as an apprentice at the Stratford Festival and honored with The Jean Chalmers Award for Most Promising Actor. When Street Legal's fourth season wrapped in January, Elliott began to crave a villainous part. "You like to play opposite type," he says, "to prove you have range." What he also likes to do is stay home and cook or watch mini-festivals of three and four videos at a time. And he visits his old pals in Milton, Ont., where he was born, because "those guys, they keep you honest," no matter how many interviewers concentrate on his looks.

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