Joel Tobeck: On playing the bad guys...
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
Interview Credit
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
Copyright
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.
