Alison Bruce: on Being Eve, Hercules and Agnetha
Posted on 28 February 2012
Interview, Camera and Editing – Andrew Whiteside
Alison Bruce is an award-winning actress who has played a diverse range of film and TV characters. She has starred in New Zealand’s long-running soap
Shortland Street and some of our biggest TV dramas such as
Shark in the Park,
Mercy Peak and the kidult comedy
Being Eve. Her film career includes roles in
The World’s Fastest Indian,
An Angel At My Table, and
Reckless Behaviour. She last graced our television screens playing Agnetha in
The Almighty Johnsons.
In this ScreenTalk, Bruce talks about:
- Creating chaos for the production company of Shark in the Park
- How appearing in one episode of Xena made her a sex symbol
- Working with a young and ‘geeky’ Ryan Gosling on Young Hercules
- How the lead role in Majik and Rose changed her career
- Fighting over a toilet seat with Steve Lovatt in Being Eve
- Working her real pregnancy into the storylines of Mercy Peak
- Being too nervous to speak on the set of The World’s Fastest Indian
- Feeling anxious about the scripts on The Almighty Johnsons
- Always feeling she’ll be caught out as a ‘fraud’ as an actress
This video is
available on YouTube to embed and distribute via a
Creative Commons licence.
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shortland street,
shark in the park,
being eve,
mercy peak,
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The World’s Fastest Indian,
An Angel at my Table,
Reckless Behaviour,
The Almighty Johnsons,
Majik and Rose
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