Elizabeth McRae: Shortland Street's Marj and much more...
2012
Actor Elizabeth McRae played Marj the receptionist on Shortland Street. But her career spans stage and screen. Her first TV role was in The Games Affair in 1974. Since then she has featured in everything from anthology show About Face to movie Rest for the Wicked.
In this ScreenTalk, McRae talks about:
- Working with screen legends Rudall and Ramai Haywood on The Doll’s House
- Horrifying temperatures during the shoot for The Games Affair
- Playing a sympathetic aunt in groundbreaking AIDs drama A Death in the Family
- Being accused of "prostituting her art" by appearing in Shortland Street
- Having to work closely with a bull in Jubilee
- Playing a slightly batty Pākehā mother in Nancy Brunning’s short film Journey to Ihapa
- The joys of working with other veteran actors in rest home comedy Rest for the Wicked
- Acknowledging the importance of writing to the TV and film industry
Interview Credit
Interview, Camera and Editing – Andrew Whiteside
“It was a real breakthrough I think. It was made with a great deal of compassion and dedication really from us all.”
Elizabeth McRae on acting in A Death In The Family, a groundbreaking film about AIDS
Copyright
This video was first uploaded on 27 August 2012, 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.
