Sometimes you take a job for the money, sometimes you take it for the location, sometimes you take it for the script; there are just a number of reasons, and ultimately what you see is the whole landscape of it. But I can tell you from behind the scenes - that's what it is, as an actor.
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers.