Luanne Gordon: From Xena to The Strip, and working in the UK…

Interview – 2013

Actor Luanne Gordon has fought Lucy Lawless in Xena: Warrior Princess, run a strip club in The Strip, and played a tough detective in Interrogation. She has also appeared in a range of feature films, including Stickmen, King Kong, and Irish comedy Sensation.

In this ScreenTalk, Gordon talks about:

Rolling around in snow on the set of Xena: Warrior Princess
Getting into the right mood for a sex scene in Stickmen
Workshopping with a rival for the lead role in The Strip
Relishing playing the fool with her character in the show
Nearly saying no to King Kong
The challenges of dialogue-heavy cop drama Interrogation
Feeling sad on the set of Irish comedy movie Sensation
The intensity of filming Christchurch earthquake drama Hope and Wire

This video was first uploaded on 14 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

There was just something quite vulnerable and a bit goofy about her . . . I do like to add a little bit of quirk to characters and you know...I probably go too far often, but it was fun, and with her I was given a loose rein.
– Luanne Gordon on her starring role as Melissa on TV series The Strip

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