ScreenTalk: Luanne Gordon
22 Oct 2013
Award-winning actor Luanne Gordon has fought Lucy Lawless in Xena: Warrior Princess, run a strip club in The Strip, and played a tough detective in Interrogation.
Award-winning actor Luanne Gordon has fought Lucy Lawless in Xena: Warrior Princess, run a strip club in The Strip, and played a tough detective in Interrogation. She has also appeared in a range of feature films including Stickmen, King Kong, and Irish comedy Sensation.
Her latest role is in Hope and Wire – a television drama about the Christchurch earthquake.
In this ScreenTalk, Gordon talks about:
- Rolling around in snow on the set of Xena: Warrior Princess
- Getting into the right mood for a sex scene in Stickmen
- Workshopping with a rival for the lead role in The Strip
- Relishing playing the fool with her character in the show
- Nearly saying no to her part in King Kong
- Struggling to retain her lines in Interrogation
- Feeling sad on the set of Irish comedy film Sensation
- The intensity of filming earthquake drama Hope and Wire
This video is available on YouTube to embed and distribute via a Creative Commons licence.
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