ScreenTalk: Mark Mitchinson
28 Oct 2013
Award-winning actor Mark Mitchinson has made a name for himself bringing complex and dangerous characters to life on screen.
Award-winning actor Mark Mitchinson has made a name for himself bringing complex and dangerous characters to life on screen.
He has played a phychiatrist who murdered his wife in Bloodlines; a gunman in Seige; and a dodgy shrink in Nothing Trivial. In 2013, Mitchinson also produced and starred in the made for the web drama/comedy High Road.
In this ScreenTalk, Mitchinson talks about:
- Being overwhelmed by the pace of filming on Outrageous Fortune
- Relishing the contradictions of the lead role in Bloodlines
- A small but critical role in the tele-feature Rage
- Gaining a perspective on Peter Jackson in The Hobbit
- Lobbying to play the killer in Siege
- The strange experience of filming in the real location of the drama
- The genesis of his web series High Road
- Realising his role in Nothing Trivial could make him hated
This video is available on YouTube to embed and distribute via a Creative Commons licence.
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