Jennifer Ward-Lealand: Kiwi acting royalty finding new opportunities online…

Interview – 2018

Jennifer Ward-Lealand is often referred to as acting royalty in New Zealand. Ten years after her first interview with NZ On Screen, Ward-Lealand sat down again to bring us up to date on what she has been up to over the past decade.

In this interview, Ward-Lealand talks about:

How the changing digital landscape has provided new career opportunities
The creative freedom that web series can bring
Having fun on web series Auckland Daze
Learning te reo Māori after an embarrassing on-set moment
Sharing some similarities with her character in TV series Dirty Laundry
Getting advice from experts on money laundering to prep for the role
Supporting young filmmakers on Kiwi film Dead
Feeling spoilt by the on-off shooting model for movie Vermilion
Why Equity New Zealand is vital for the local film industry

Watch Jennifer Ward-Lealand's first ScreenTalk interview here.

This video was first uploaded on 3 December 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

...there's been an explosion of web series, and the whole digital landscape has changed. And that has been a really excellent way for me to kind of find my way back into screen because really up until the last couple of years, I would have said 75 percent, 85 percent of my work is in the theatre.
– Jennifer Ward-Lealand on acting opportunities provided by the rise in web productions, at the start of this interview

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