Funny man actor Peter Rowley
Posted on 23 August 2010
Credits: Interview, Camera & Editing – Andrew Whiteside
Funny man actor Peter Rowley is best known for his appearances in a slew of TV comedy shows including A Week of It, McPhail and Gadsby, The Billy T James Show, the self-titled Pete and Pio, with Pio Terei, and Letter to Blanchy. Rowley does however have a dramatic side which he has ably demonstrated in the feature films Savage Islands, Russian Snark and Netherwood (currently in post-production).
In this ScreenTalk interview, Rowley talks about:
- How A Week of It became a hit satirising politics and politicians
- How lampooning Prime Minister Rob Muldoon made Muldoon more popular
- Being accused of ruining the career of Bill Rowling by the politician’s daughter
- Writing for The Billy T James Show while living with the show’s star
- Hating the emergence of political correctness while continuing to push boundaries in comedy
- Causing offence in a souvenir store by wearing a Nazi uniform
- Loving working with Pio Terei in Pete and Pio
- How Aucklanders didn’t ‘get’ Letter to Blanchy
- Successfully begging to be in the pirate movie Savage Islands
- The beautiful cinematography in Stephen Sinclair’s film Russian Snark
- Overcoming personal doubts about his abilities
This video is available on YouTube to embed and distribute via a Creative Commons licence.
Comments
by Barry Jenkin on 3 August 2011 at 6:31pm
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