Joel Tobeck: On playing the bad guys...

Interview – 2010

Actor Joel Tobeck has played many roles, from drug addicts and cops to a "bastard in a wheelchair". He has appeared in TV shows Lawless, Hercules, This is Not My Life, One Lane Bridge and Sons of Anarchy, plus movies Topless Women Talk about their Lives and Little Fish.

In this ScreenTalk, Tobeck talks about:

Learning about acting from director Niki Caro, on TV's The Summer the Queen Came
Loving his role in the TV show and movie versions of Topless Women Talk About Their Lives
Playing a "bastard in a wheelchair" in Shortland Street
Having to ‘step up’ his acting for series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
The intensity of working on the set of Channelling Baby
Why shooting the seance scene made him doubt his role in the film
Having to do bad impressions for Taika Waititi on offbeat movie Eagle vs Shark
Trying new approaches while playing the bad guy on TV drama This is Not My Life
His ambitions for the future

This video was first uploaded on 26 October 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.

Interview, Camera and Editing – Andrew Whiteside

I had never really met a director like her before, where she was trying to break down all the acting barriers and getting to the real me. It was a great excerise in dropping, for me, what I thought was acting.
– Joel Tobeck on auditioning for director Niki Caro