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ScreenTalk: Paul Ellis

Actor Paul Ellis is best known for playing bad boy Fergus Kearney on Shortland Street. Since leaving the show, he has appeared in a number of New Zealand, US and UK television shows including Dreamteam, The Chosen, Mile High, Celebrity Treasure Island and Legend of the Seeker.

Actor Paul Ellis is best known for playing bad boy Fergus Kearney on Shortland Street. Since leaving the show, he has appeared in a number of New Zealand, US and UK television shows including Dreamteam, The Chosen, Mile High, Celebrity Treasure Island and Legend of the Seeker. He has also appeared in two feature films: Kiss Me Deadly and Ice, and in the online soap Auckland Daze.

In this ScreenTalk, Ellis talks about:

  •     Auditioning for a part on Shortland Street at the tender age of 18
  •     Viewing his character Fergus as a bad boy with a good heart
  •     Loving working with Claire Chitham on the show
  •     How a part on the UK show Dreamteam challenged him as an actor
  •     Feeling nervous and a little out of place on Celebrity Treasure Island
  •     Being in the film Kiss Me Deadly with Shannon Doherty without actually meeting her
  •     Enjoying the large scale of production on Legend of the Seeker
  •     Having to shave his head for the role of a monk on the show
  •     Finding it weird playing ‘himself’ on Auckland Daze

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

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