Kate Harcourt: a lifetime of performance…

Interview – 2014

Actoe Kate Harcourt has had a long and distinguished career in theatre, television and film. Her first television gig was as a presenter on the Wellington version of children’s show Junior Magazine. She would later appear in TV dramas such as Country GP, Plain Tastes, and the TV play Loose Enz - Free Enterprise. Harcourt has also acted in a number of feature films including Mr Wrong, Apron Strings and Savage Islands.

In this ScreenTalk interview, Harcourt talks about:

Presenting next to a terrifying hippopotamus on Junior Magazine
Making sure she stuck to the script on true crime film Beyond Reasonable Doubt
Meeting the recently released Arthur Allan Thomas on the set
Being confronted by a mouse in a sandwich in Loose Enz - Free Enterprise
Exposing herself to the cast on the set of Savage Islands
Odd conversations with American actor Tommy Lee Jones
Winning Best Female Actress for the film Pacific Dreams
How workshopping with other actors influenced the script of Hook, Line and Sinker
Working in the red zones of Christchurch while filming Hope and Wire
Why theatre is her greatest love

This video was first uploaded on 22 September 2014, 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

We were given this situation and asked to improv the whole thing. And we sat there for about 80 minutes inventing all sorts of extraordinary things that you know came off the top of our heads, and the director used a lot of that in the final script.
– Kate Harcourt on how improvisation made it into the script for movie Hook, Line And Sinker

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