Roy Dupuis, who delivered a solid performance in Francis Leclerc's last film, will feature in the new project, although he doesn't have the leading role. 

Francis Leclerc: "Roy has become a great friend since Mémoires affectives. I thought, 'I know him, I know he's good, so why not work with him again? Why make it difficult for myself and look for somebody else for the part?' So I got him to read the script and he agreed to do the film."

For a second time, Quebec actor Roy Dupuis finds himself under the direction of Francis Leclerc, in a role that could not be more different from the one that gave us Mémoires affectives.   This time he will put on the uniform of “coach Turcotte” in order to direct an under-18’s baseball team.

With his film Un été sans point ni coup sûr, Francis Leclerc goes beyond the basic game.  Baseball is used as a pretext for telling the story. 

"The main subject of the film isn't baseball in the way hockey was for Maurice Richard,” says Roy Dupuis.  “The sport is only a backdrop. The film deals rather with family and adolescence, in an era where baseball is a bit like society.  Martin, the character played by Pier-Luc Funk, asks loads of questions in order to discover his exact place in the world, and what his real abilities are. He'll discover that maybe his dreams are unrealistic.

In the saga of Martin’s character, Mr Turcotte is a first-class instructor, and his team’s potential is the envy of the young boy. 

"Mr Turcotte is an excellent instructor and he knows it.  Baseball is very serious, too serious even,” thinks the actor who, when younger, made the decision to stop playing his favourite sport because of this overly “serious” side.

"I've experienced the situation the film describes. I could have gone far in hockey, but I stopped because I didn't see the sense any more.  It had become too strict.  My team didn't even understand that I could miss a practice to go and see Genesis, one of the most popular groups around at the time!  That's a bit like my character.  He takes his sport too much to heart.

Since Mr. Turcotte’s character is a supporting role, filming Un été sans point ni coup sûr does not represent the same challenge that Francis Leclerc’s last feature film, Mémoires affectives, did.

"This time I'm not carrying the whole film on my shoulders, so to speak. I'm not the lead character.  But all the same the role presents something of a challenge - to play someone who's insipid!" says Roy who this summer will work both on Louis Bélanger’s next film, Timekeeper, and Jean-François Richet’s L’instinct de mort, about the life of criminal Jacques Mesrine, and in which he will share star billing with Vincent Cassel.