Dan Musgrove loves playing bad guys and has managed to do so in shows such as Underbelly NZ – Land of the Long Green Cloud, Go Girls and Westside. When not being bad, he has acted in fantasy programmes (Legend of the Seeker), got a girl pregnant (Piece of My Heart), and climbed a mountain (Beyond the Edge).

In this ScreenTalk, Musgrove talks about:

• Wearing PVC apparel on kidult hit The Tribe
• How a sex scene in Piece of My Heart shocked his family
• Playing opposite Keisha Castle-Hughes in Legend of the Seeker
• Relishing playing bad for a change on Go Girls
• Not thinking of his character as a bad guy in Underbelly NZ – Land of the Long Green Cloud
• Working with a funny cast and veteran director John Laing on the dramatic TV film Safe House
• How oxygen deprivation affected his performance on climbing Everest film Beyond the Edge
• The challenges of a tight budget on the film 3 Mile Limit
• Loving playing a bigot in tight pants on TV drama Westside
• Why the cast of the show are so much fun to work with

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

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