Sean Duffy: from cop shows to comedy…

Interview – 2012

Sean Duffy started his TV career as a news and documentary editor, then later began mixing in acting roles on film and television. His major breakthrough role was in Mortimer’s Patch. Since then he has starred in numerous TV shows including Willy Nilly, Plain Clothes, Tiger Country and The Neighbourhood Network. His film credits include Utu, Came a Hot Friday and Smash Palace. Duffy has also directed a number of TV documentaries (Heartland).

In this ScreenTalk interview, Duffy talks about:

Being laughed at for his acting in The Governor
Mortimer’s Patch being his favourite acting experience
How the pace of the show was incredibly slow by modern standards
Seeing a horse being spray-painted on the set of the film Utu
Ending up buried under a concrete airport runway on Gloss
Terrifying fellow actor Simon Prast in one scene
Being surprised that TV3 commissioned quirky comedy The Neighbourhood Network
How illness ruined his performance in cop tale Tiger Country
Forming a brilliant working partnership with Mark Hadlow on Willy Nilly
Not understanding why the show was cancelled

This video was first uploaded on 12 November 2012, 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

...of my filming experiences, that was the most pleasurable. And I think it's because I was so new to it, and I was learning so much from some pretty seasoned actors who were around me.
– Sean Duffy on acting in cop show Mortimer's Patch with Terence Cooper and Don Selwyn

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