New Zealand Is A Pretty No-nonsense Place

Being The New Guy's Always Great Because You Get To Go In Fresh With Your Own Choices And You Get To Bring New Life And Breath And A New Energy Into Something That's Already Established.

Mcleod's Daughters Was My First Regular Job Out Of Drama School, And My First Full-time Role. That Was Great Because I Learned A Lot, In Terms Of Working In Front Of The Camera. I Learned A Lot Of Technical Aspects That You Take For Granted Once You Know Them, But You Have To Learn Them Somewhere, Along The Way. It Was A Bit Of A Training Ground For Me, Working In Front Of The Camera And Also Dealing With Media.

I Think There's Always Pieces Of Yourself That Bleed Into Your Character. That's Inevitable. In Some Ways, We Have Similarities, But In Other Ways, We're Completely Different. It's Hard To Say Because I'm An Actor Living In A World Where We're All Pretty Privileged, And This Guy Is Fighting For His Life. They're Very Different Circumstances. Within Those Circumstances, There Are Probably Ways That We React To Certain Situations That Are Similar.

I Had Wanted To Be A Fish Farmer, To Be Honest With You. I Wanted To Be An Agriculturist. I Wanted To Have My Own Fish Farm. I Was Also Contemplating Surfboard Building.

I Think There's Always Pieces Of Yourself That Bleed Into Your Character. That's Inevitable.