I’m from a small city in a small country, profoundly isolated from the rest of the world, at the deep south of the Pacific Ocean. The idea that I could become an actor, a screen actor, was something so far over someone else’s horizon that I never gave it a second thought. There was nowhere in New Zealand where you could train to be an actor. No one was making movies, no one thought of making films in New Zealand when I was a kid, as far as I knew.
