TORONTO \u2014 Former prime minister Justin Trudeau turned out at a Toronto screening of \u201cHair of the Bear\u201d on Thursday night, showing support for his brother, Alexandre Trudeau, as he premiered his debut scripted feature.<\/p>\n
Co-directed by Alexandre Trudeau and James McLellan, the Canadian survival thriller marks Alexandre\u2019s first foray into fiction after years of helming geopolitical documentaries.<\/p>\n
The filmmaker said in an interview that he and his older brother don\u2019t typically discuss film and that they\u2019re \u201cmore likely to wrestle\u201d whenever they get together.<\/p>\n
While Justin Trudeau has occasionally appeared in film projects \u2014 including a starring role in 2007 CBC TV film \u201cThe Great War\u201d \u2014 Alexandre said the two have no plans to collaborate professionally.<\/p>\n
Since stepping away from politics last year, his brother has been \u201csuper happy\u201d enjoying a quieter period of life and \u201cfalling in love\u201d with his pop star girlfriend, Katy Perry.<\/p>\n
Alexandre added that he\u2019s met Perry, and he\u2019s \u201cthrilled\u201d for his brother.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s super happy. He\u2019s enjoying the little freedoms of shopping and fixing things in his home and dating again or, you know, falling in love again. He\u2019s doing great. And he\u2019s young enough to enjoy life too,\u201d said Alexandre.<\/p>\n
He added that Justin introduced Perry to him \u201cwhen they became serious.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Canada Trudeau Perry This combo of file photos shows, popstar Katy Perry, left, at Madison Square Garden, Dec. 13, 2024, in New York, and former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during a news conference Feb. 24, 2025, in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Photo by Andy Kropa\/Invision\/AP, left; and Frank Gunn\/The Canadian Press via AP, File) <\/p>\n
The couple has made international headlines since being spotted on a dinner date in Montreal last summer. <\/p>\n
\u201cI was thrilled that he thought it important for her to meet his family, so we were all happy to see her,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
Shot in Manitoba, \u201cHair of the Bear\u201d stars Malia Baker as an anxiety-ridden teen sent to stay at a remote cabin with her grandfather, played by Roy Dupuis. When the two are threatened by some unwelcome visitors, she must do everything she can to survive.<\/p>\n
Alexandre Trudeau says he doesn\u2019t expect his brother to act in any of his films.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have a rule that we don\u2019t hassle each other, so I would not hassle him to act in a movie,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Still, he didn\u2019t rule out the possibility of a future cameo, joking that an appearance in an animated film might be the most likely scenario.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe I\u2019ll get him to do a voice.\u201d<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 26, 2026<\/p>\n
Alex Nino Gheciu, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Former prime minister Justin Trudeau turned out at a Toronto screening of \u201cHair of the Bear\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[76,49,48,75,1554,3302],"class_list":["post-502155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-arts","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-film","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}