ScreenTalk » danny mulheron http://screentalk.nzonscreen.com TV and Film Industry Interviews Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:16:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 Danny Mulheron on his acting and directing life http://screentalk.nzonscreen.com/interviews/danny-mulheron-on-his-acting-and-directing-life http://screentalk.nzonscreen.com/interviews/danny-mulheron-on-his-acting-and-directing-life#comments Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:38:23 +0000 Screen Talker http://screentalk.nzonscreen.com/?p=103 Actor/director Danny Mulheron has acted alongside drug-addicted frogs, haunted automobiles, and “force of nature” David Fane. After appearing in early Kiwi soap Close to Home, Mulheron went on to act on television, stage and film – including in the cult Peter Jackson puppet movie Meet the Feebles. In the late 80s he found himself working on both sides of the camera on a run of television sketch shows. Mulheron’s lengthy directorial CV now includes drama, comedy, and documentary.

In this ScreenTalk interview, Danny Mulheron talks about:

  • working with a stuntman, while acting in Gaylene Preston’s haunted car movie Mr Wrong
  • helping write the “outrageous script” for Peter Jackson puppet movie Meet the Feebles, then filming it in a freezing railways shed (Mulheron plays a homicidal hippo)
  • working as a writer and actor on a run of sketch comedy shows for producer Dave Gibson, and beginning the move into directing
  • directing “force of nature” David Fane on shortlived comedy show The Semisis, about a dysfunctional Samoan family
  • moving into drama directing with The Strip, and The Hothouse
  • co-creating un-PC TV series Seven Periods with Mr Gormsby, and finding an actor who could play Mr Gormsby, a racist, sexist schoolteacher at a low decile school
  • showing films in a different way with personal documentary The Third Richard, made with wife Sara Stretton

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

Credits: Direction and Interview by Ian Pryor, Camera and Editing by Leo Guerchmann.

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