Mark Mitchinson: a career playing dangerous men…

Interview – 2013

Award-winning actor Mark Mitchinson has made a name for himself bringing complex and sometimes dangerous characters to life on-screen. He has played a psychiatrist who murdered his wife in Bloodlines, a gunman in Siege, and legendary lawyer Mike Bungay in Dear Murderer. Mitchinson also produced and starred in web drama/comedy High Road.

In this ScreenTalk interview, Mitchinson talks about:

Working at a high pace on Outrageous Fortune
Relishing the contradictions of the lead role in Bloodlines
A small but critical role in 1981 tour drama Rage
Gaining a perspective on Peter Jackson while making The Hobbit
Lobbying to play killer Jan Molenaar in Siege
The strange experience of filming in the actual house where the siege occured
The genesis of web series High Road
Acting with Nicole Whippy while playing a boundary-crossing shrink on Nothing Trivial

This video was first uploaded on 21 October 2013, and is available under this Creative Commons licence. This licence is limited to use of ScreenTalk interview footage only and does not apply to any video content and photographs from films, television, music videos, web series and commercials used in the interview.

Interview, Camera and Editing – Andrew Whiteside

It was just amazing to be part of a piece of filmic history that showed something that had happened when I was alive, and that was so important in changing a cultural perspective in this country.

– Mark Mitchinson on acting in Springbok tour drama Rage

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