ScreenTalk

Into the darklands – Scott Wills on playing bad

Posted on 8 March 2010

Scott Wills began his screen career in the early 90s, with appearances in soap Shortland Street and in short films including Ouch, Permanent Wave and The Hole (shown at the Clermont Ferrand Short Film Festival in France).

In 2000, Wills was nominated for two acting awards (one for Ouch and the other for his supporting part in romantic comedy Hopeless) and also starred in feature film Stickmen, a role which earned him the award for best actor at the 2001 New Zealand Film Awards.

Wills followed Stickmen with a run of television performances, including Interrogation and Doves of War.

Big-budget vampire feature Perfect Creature put Wills alongside British actors Saffron Burrows and Dougray Scott, and in 2009 his performance in family drama Apron Strings earned him a Qantas Film and Television Award for Best Lead Actor. In the same year Wills appeared as Saul, the troubled head of security in TV thriller The Cult.

In this ScreenTalk interview, Wills talks about:

• His early work with Danielle Cormack’s underwear
• His personal nightmare at the premiere of Hopeless
• His thoughts on improving the NZ Film and TV awards
• Why he spent time with policemen from Auckland Central CIB
• What it was like working on big budget feature Perfect Creature
• How he crafted his award-winning performance in Apron Strings
• An insight into his disturbing character Saul in The Cult

This video is available on YouTube to embed and distribute via a Creative Commons licence.

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