Jackie van Beek: on the importance of chaos in filmmaking...

Interview – 2018

Actor, director, writer and funny person Jackie van Beek first honed her storytelling skills in theatre. Since then she has acted in a variety of screen roles, and expanded into directing. In 2017 van Beek wrote and directed her first feature The Inland Road, then collaborated and starred with Madeleine Sami on hit comedy The Breaker Upperers.

In this ScreenTalk interview, van Beek talks about:

Losing and finding confidence in her acting on Shortland Street
How time as a clown led to her first short film One Shoe Short
Thriving amidst the on-set chaos of What We Do in the Shadows
Feeling blissful directing her debut feature, The Inland Road
Co-directing The Breaker Upperers with Madeleine Sami
Managing their on-set relationship, and their lack of ego
Why she is proud of the film
The dream job of directing on What We Do in the Shadows spin-off Wellington Paranormal

This video was first uploaded on 25 June 2018, 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

Madeleine and I co-wrote, co-directed and co-starred in the film, so it was a circus.

– Jackie Van Beek on co-directing 2018 hit movie The Breaker Upperers, with Madeleine Sami

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