The Predator prequel filmed had a 95 per cent Indigenous cast
Michelle Thrush has been an actor in film, television and stage for over 30 years.
As a Cree woman, she said she remembers breaking down emotionally many times throughout her career after delivering or engaging with heavy dialogue or re-traumatizing material in a project.
“The material we deal with is medicine and it’s sacred,” Thrush said, “I have spent so many times in my trailer or on the edge of a set somewhere bawling my eyes out by myself having to deal with what that medicine is, of how it affects me, my family, how it affects my community.”