Cohen Holloway: On blending comedy and drama...

Cohen Holloway is a singer, actor and comedian who first made an impact on comedy shows Pulp Comedy and Facelift. Holloway went on to act in movies After the Waterfall, and Taika Waititi  hits Boy  and Hunt for the Wilderpeople. In 2009 he won a Qantas Best Actor Award after starring as David Dougherty in TV drama Until Proven Innocent. In 2015 he starred in Māori Television’s acclaimed comedy series Find Me a Māori Bride.

In this ScreenTalk, Holloway talks about:

• Feeling terrified about his first appearance on Pulp Comedy 
• Having his John Campbell impression replaced by the real John Campbell on bro’Town
• How doing impersonations too well meant he got a different role in Eagle vs Shark
• Trying to control his nerves during his first day on TV movie Until Proven Innocent
• Shooting an intense scene with actor Antony Starr for film After the Waterfall
• Talking with Taika Waititi about finding the right Māori voice for hit film Boy 
• Working with the film's young star James Rolleston
• Playing a baddie in mullet and gumboots for director Jane Campion, in Top of the Lake
• Basing his Find Me a Māori Bride character of Tama partly on himself
• Being won over by Sam Neill and Julian Dennison on Taika Waititi's Hunt for the Wilderpeople
• Officially becoming cool, after working with Stan Walker on the film

This video was first uploaded on 3 August 2015, 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