Will Hall: playing goodies, baddies and a dodgy Aussie...

Interview – 2011

Will Hall fell into a screen career by accident after hanging out with filmmakers at Lincoln University, while he was studying towards a commerce degree. After time in Australia, he landed a key role in acclaimed TV series The Insiders Guide to Happiness. Shortland Street and tele-feature Bloodlines followed, as well as Underbelly - Land of the Long Green Cloud and Nothing Trivial. Hall also co-produced and acted in feature thriller Netherwood.

In this ScreenTalk interview, Hall talks about:

His earliest experiences with filmmaking at university
Being cast in Australian feature Fat Pizza
Troubles with his first Australian agent
How he landed his role in The Insiders Guide to Happiness
Breaking expensive props on Eagle vs Shark
His role as a pot smoking, skateboarding doctor on Shortland Street
Producing and acting in feature film Netherwood, a modern-day Western thriller
How he approached his role as Detective Roberts in TV movie Bloodlines
Insights into his portrayal of Greg Ollard in Underbelly - Land of the Long Green Cloud
Violent public reaction to his character in Nothing Trivial

This video was first uploaded on 23 November 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 - James Coleman

They were just searching for a new doctor . . .. It was a case of blowing the dust off this old showreel they'd received years ago. . . ... there was no audition or anything. They kind of combined what they'd seen on the show reel, and somehow come out with a skateboarding, pot-smoking ED doctor.
– Will Hall on how his role in Shortland Street began from a forgotten showreel he had sent in

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