Devon Sawa has been a Jays fan all along
Let’s hope the horror actor’s devotion conjures good luck for game six on October 31
We’ve been keeping a close and judgmental eye on Canadian expats during the World Series. The Blue Jays haven’t been in it since 1993, after all, and we want to know who’s riding for us during this historic heritage moment.
We’re unclear on Will Arnett and mildly annoyed over seeing Meghan Markle and Prince Harry in Dodgers hats last night given that they met in Toronto and Harry’s father is Canada’s head of state.
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But there’s one celebrity we know we can count on. (Well, aside from the prince of the other London, Justin Bieber, who went so far as to give Shohei Ohtani’s game-three home run a thumbs down at Dodger Stadium on Monday.) And that is Devon Sawa, who has been delighting us with Jays memes all throughout the series.
The Vancouver-born actor is well known for horror roles in Final Destination, Idle Hands, Heart Eyes and Casper (okay, that one’s not horror per se, but even friendly ghosts are a little hair-raising). He’s made his allegiance abundantly clear. “I think a lot of people were concerned about which way I was going while living down here in Dodger nation,” he wrote on Instagram, revealing a box full of Jays apparel.
Earlier, he posted a photo of his daughter in a Jays hat. “But dad, all the other kids in my class wear LA Dodgers,” he wrote in the caption.
He’s no bandwagoner. As early as game one, he recorded a video of himself excitedly exclaiming, “We got this. We are going to win the World Series,” while wearing a Jays hat.
A beloved Canadian horror actor cheering for the Jays, with game six coming to Toronto on October 31—we’re asking the spooky spirits for a Halloween miracle.
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Carly Lewis is a journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times and the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Wired, Interview Magazine, Pitchfork, Elle, and Maclean’s, where she is a contributing editor. Her work has been recognized by the National Magazine Awards and the Digital Publishing Awards. She reports on city life, culture—including what people do online—politics, art and crime. She received the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award for “The Murder of Ashley Wadsworth,” an investigative feature about a Canadian teenager who was killed by a man she met on social media, published by Maclean’s.
