Stephen Lovatt: on indie movies, injuries, and playing cops with Campion and Kightley...

Interview – 2014

Stephen Lovatt’s acting career has taken him from ancient Rome to Ramsey Street. Aside from five years acting on Neighbours in Australia, he has played everything from unreliable dads to Hades, Lord of the Dead, in shows like Go Girls, Being Eve, Marlin Bay, Shortland Street, and Xena: Warrior Princess. He has also acted in a number of features — including acclaimed 2013 movie Fantail.

In this ScreenTalk interview, Lovatt talks about:

Witnessing his screen debut on Shark in the Park
On-screen chemistry with Theresa Healey on the "wild" set of Savage Honeymoon
How Australian soap Neighbours reminded him of working in the theatre
Sustaining an injury doing his own stunt on Being Eve
Doing "unacceptable" things on Go Girls
Not having to take his shirt off in Spartacus
Being "a highly paid extra" on Top of the Lake
The impressive style of Oscar Kightley cop show Harry
Being proud of low budget feature Fantail
His bemusement at getting more lead roles internationally than in New Zealand

This video was first uploaded on 24 February 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

A lot of people who've been doing thisworking for a long long time came on board to work for not very much to make a story about us, for us, by us . . . It's gone into the canon of New Zealand filmmaking; I'm proud to have been a part of that. It was really good to be involved with a show that's shot on such a small budget but with such high hopes....
– Stephen Lovatt on the pride of acting in 2013 film Fantail

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