Phillip Gordon: from bad boy to the street...

Interview – 2011

Actor Phillip Gordon began his television acting career playing bad boy Hugh Clifford on the long-running soap Close to Home. In the 1980s he got starring roles in TV series Inside Straight and hit film Came a Hot Friday, then acted in kidult show Terry and the Gunrunners. Later he starred in moody movie The Returning.

In this ScreenTalk interview, Gordon talks about:

Not really knowing what he was doing on the set of Close to Home
How his own life experiences helped create the role of Hugh in the soap
Enjoying the enthusiasm of director Ian Mune on the set of Came a Hot Friday
Learning from his fellow actors in the film
Thinking his performance in Shortland Street was "overblown"
Finally feeling good about his acting when he joined Street Legal
Getting an apology from the director for the hard job of acting in Bridge to Nowhere

This video was first uploaded on 30 August 2011, 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 to really stretch to meet that, I could no longer sit back on the television comfortability; I had to really become big, I had to fill this big screen.
– Phillip Gordon on acting alongside the inventive Peter Bland on big screen romp Came A Hot Friday

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