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Following on from Matt Whelan’s lead role in The Most Fun You Can Have Dying, Toi Grad Cohen Holloway (Boy, Eagle vs Shark, Until Proven Innocent) is grabbing the limelight for his role in Good For Nothing, the new indy movie from first-time filmmakers Mike Wallis and Inge Rademeyer. Inspired by the Spaghetti Westerns, the movie is an adventurous romp about a romance with a twist, set in the sweeping landscape of Central Otago. Cohen plays The Man, in a nod to Clint Eastwood, for which he had to learn to ride a horse and shoot a musket – a challenge for this city boy! ‘I lied and said I could ride a horse, shoot a pistol and do all sorts of ‘cowboy’ type things. Eventually I fessed up and was taught how to ride a horse and made to look like I’d be been doing it all my life.’ The film is fresh from sold-out screenings at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival and has been getting attention here for the pluck of the two filmmakers – instead of buying a house together they poured all of their funds into their dream movie, and were picked up in the nick of time by Weta Workshop’s Jamie Selkirk. Selkirk funded the film’s post production; then composer John Psathas came on board, and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra for the soundtrack, and there we have it – the world’s first ‘Pavlova Western’.