ScreenTalk: Ido Drent
20 Jan 2016
Ido Drent on acting in hospitals, a therapist's office and battlefields...
Ido Drent is a model turned actor who first won fans playing Daniel Potts in the hit Kiwi soap Shortland Street. Drent made a mark in Australia after playing a young therapist in Offspring, and drummer Jon Farriss in the mini-series INXS: Never Tear Us Apart. Drent also portrayed a Gallipoli soldier in NZ mini-series When We Go to War.
In this ScreenTalk, Drent talks about:
- How Shortland Street was his drama school and "baptism by fire"
- Getting confused and lost during a rehearsal
- How Shortland Street character Daniel mirrored aspects of his own life
- Feeling nervous on the set of Aussie TV hit Offspring
- How colourful socks felt like the key to his character on the show
- Getting to play rock star for INXS: Never Tear Us Apart
- Teamwork being at the heart of When We Go to War
- Why an illness made the experience more real
This video is available on YouTube to embed and distribute via this Creative Commons licence.
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