Well that was fun! I chatted with Nights host on National Radio, Bryan Crump, about 1992 and what it was like to live in Russia just after the fall of communism. It was cold, and rather alchololic (what’s that in the coffee cup)? Anyway, here is the interview, which ran Tuesday 29 July Our Own Odysseys: the Fall of Communism
This is NUTS. An interview I did for QuoteUnquote magazine with Michael Galvin, Dr Chris Warner on Shortland Street, in 1996! It was a few months after he left Shorty. I'd just done a one month stint and was to return for a longer stint a few years later as acting...
In December I went to Bali for five days to act in a TVC for a bookings.com campaign. It was a fabulous time, I have to confess. Sorry to skite, but we were spoilt rotten: practically by our lovely producer, Angela Hovey, and creatively by the awesome team from...
I flew to Russia via a stopover in Belgrade. There was a civil war going on which explained the cut price Yugoslav Airlines fare, though the saving was lost when I was robbed in a sleazy Belgrade hotel. Undaunted, next day I touched down at Sheremetyevo airport,...
Last week I was asked by Phil Darkins of NZ Equity to do a Q&A with Jennifer Ward-Leyland, Britta McVeigh and Miranda Harcourt on the Actor-Coach relationship. Flattered to be included in such exulted company, I accepted. The evening has come and gone, and it was...
"The reason I keep making movies is I hate the last thing I did. I’m trying to rectify my wrongs" - Joaquin Phoenix You don’t have to be a tortured artist to be a good actor. You have a right to happiness, a life long partner, kids, travel, a life, all that good...