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Now, your newest acting work was in a New Zealand series called Mataku.

Mataku is a New Zealand series based on Maori myths and legends. The translation of the word Mataku is ‘The Quivering.’ And it’s like a modern day horror series. So I played a character on that and it was great. I got to die! I got electrocuted. [laughs] And it’s a very different genre to anything I’d done before. And very New Zealand, very Kiwi.

From the descriptions I’ve read, it sounds like a New Zealand version of The Twilight Zone.

Very much. Exactly.

The episode you were in is called The Photo and you played a character named Stephanie. Was she the main character?

No, I was a supporting character. But I got a death scene! [laughs]

How many death scenes have you had? I can think of The Photo and the Motherhood episode of Xena.

[laughs] It’s bizarre because it was only today that I actually saw, when they played clips from that episode (Motherhood), when I lost my head. I’d never seen any of that. So I’ve had that death scene and probably the Mataku death scene. And that’s about it really. But it’s one of the fun things to do. Dying on film.

Turning to you non-acting work, you spent a lot of time behind the scenes on The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe…honestly it’s an extraordinary movie. I mean I don’t even know if it’s going to be successful at the moment because when you work so closely with something, it’s really hard to know, to judge it. And it was like the longest film shoot that I’ve ever done. It was like 5 months, even though I wasn’t acting in it, it was the longest period where I had to go to work all day, every day. And I was in the special effects department, which was so novel because basically they are the cowboys…and they do all the stuff from blowing things up to making all the snow. Most all the snow you’ll see onscreen is man made. So just being part of that and actually learning about how other people make the pictures…acting is very different, you know what I mean? You go stick your chin up and you have your wardrobe, you have your costume, you have this great set, but you never see how it originates. Whereas this was actually being like one of the originators, so it’s very rewarding in a completely different kind of way. But it’s actually I think sometimes more satisfying because you’re there from the beginning to the end and you’re actually physically making it. You know what I mean? You’re actually MAKING it. Rather than just turning up and being in it. Yeah, it was wicked.

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