George Henare: acting on screen and stage...
George Henare is New Zealand acting royalty, thanks to a large body of work in theatre, television and movies. His first screen performance was as a butler in 1976 TV play The Park Terrace Murder. Then he played Hōne Heke for TV epic The Governor, and later an evil chief in movie The Silent One. Henare's other screen credits include Mercy Peak, Shortland Street, Rapa Nui, and Kaitangata Twitch.
In this ScreenTalk interview, Henare talks about:
- The responsibility of representing a historical ancestor in The Governor
- Having his entire body waxed to play a villain in The Silent One
- Being blown away by the intensity of the storytelling in Once Were Warriors
- Witnessing some rapid "downsizing" of the budget on the set of Crooked Earth
- Fantastic catering and an awkward child co-star on Hercules
- Playing father to a gay son in Nights in the Gardens of Spain
- Having his role in the The Lovely Bones dramatically downsized
- Why evil characters are the real heroes
Interview Credit
Copyright
This video was first uploaded on 31 May 2010, 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.
