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Kiwi funnyman finds it hard to switch off ‘bad-ass’
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I’m no dirty Harry, says Oscar
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SQUATTING in the rain, his anguished face in his hands, Oscar Kightley weeps over a loss too heartbreaking to bear. The scene, from Kightley’s dark Kiwi drama Harry, is TV art. But the tears the show’s leading man sheds are very real. Kightley today opens up about the physical and psychological toll taken on him by his five-year morphing from screen funnyman to the role of pill-popping, boozeswilling, crim-bashing Detective Harry Anglesea. The 43-year-old’s body has bulked with muscle. Fans on the street now see him as ‘‘bad-ass’’ Harry rather than good-boy Albert from his big-screen comedy hit Sione’s Wedding. Stress from shooting the series has left him with a drinking habit he is trying to lose. ‘‘Pretty much between ‘Action’ and ‘Cut’ I had to become Harry as opposed to me pretending to be Harry,’’ Kightley tells Sunday News. ‘‘Because . . . I knew one of the challenges of the series would be people buying me in that role, and so I had to commit fully. Because if there was just an instance of people
seeing Oscar the comedian, I think it might have undermined the drama.’’ His dedication to the method acting was displayed when he wept for fear his teenage daughter Mele (played superbly by Hunter Kamuhemu) was tragically lost. The scene was the hardest he has played. ‘‘I think guy actors generally like doing action stuff, especially when it’s really removed from your real life. I knew it was the emotional ones [scenes] that I would find the most challenging and that I had to prepare the most for. ‘‘If you pretend to cry, people will see that you’re pretending. You actually have to be there in the moment and be quite real, as bizarre as it is with a [film] crew of 10 people standing around and lights.’’ The tears were Harry’s, not Oscar’s. Kightley didn’t resort to the movie tradition of reaching inside for a memory of personal pain. ‘‘I think if you’re there thinking about something sad in your real life, then you’re not really being true to that moment. You have to be thinking about whatever it is that your character’s reacting to.’’ Kightley’s climbing into the skin of flawed hero Harry began in 2008
as part of the writing team for the six-part TV3 drama series. ‘‘[There was] four years of development work . . . of creating the character, creating the world and the stories around him [Harry]. By the time we got to shooting, I felt
like I knew him, having helped define him.’’ His physical preparation was two years of hitting the gym to get the lean look of a cop hard enough to handle murderous crims and meth-dealing bikies.
‘Sneakerheads’ hot-foot it to rare sale BY NEIL REID NEW Zealand’s ‘‘Sneakerheads’’ can foot it with the best when it comes to dedication. For four nights, a dozen of the group braved near sub-zero conditions and rain to camp outside the Queen St, Auckland, branch of the Foot Locker store. Their goal was the 24 pairs of the newly released LeBron X 10s, the only pairs of that range supplied for sale in New Zealand by sportswear giant Nike. Josh McKee, an administrator for the New Zealand Sneakerheads, managed to buy three pairs of the shoes, which retailed for $340. ‘‘We were camping out since Wednesday [lunchtime],’’ he said. ‘‘It was all worth it. We are all sneaker enthusiasts. We have a passion for sneakers, just like anyone else who has a passion for something that they collect. ‘‘New Zealand has got a first-in, first-served policy, so if you are not
Kiran Ramji of Hillsborough waited outside Auckland’s Foot Locker on Queen St since Wednesday to get his limited edition LeBron X10 sneakers. Right, NZ NBA draft pick Steven Adams. Photos: John Selkirk/Fairfax NZ, Reuters in there fast you miss out. It was very cold though . . . but not enough to faze us . . .’’ It was the third time members of the 400-strong New Zealand Sneakerheads had slept outside a sports store to ensure they were able to
buy a pair of limited-edition sneakers. The popularity of Nike’s LeBron James’ shoes is such that fellow NBA stars Manu Ginobili and Danny Green also wear them while playing in the world’s leading bas-
ketball competition. The Sneakerheads held their campout as teen Steven Adams became just the second New Zealander ever to be picked up in the NBA draft; signing a two-year multimillion-dollar contract with Oklahoma City Thunder.
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Oscar Kightley’s role as a damaged police detective, top left, is a major change from his successful comedy days with the Naked Samoans, bottom left. Main photo: Lawrence Smith/Fairfax NZ Slabs of muscle were added to a normally 95kg frame. ‘‘I think strong is the new skinny. People were going, you’ve lost so much weight, but I’ve actually put on weight. I’m currently sitting over 100[kg]. In my past when I was over 100, I was a big fat blob. But now it’s a bit different.’’ Playing the angry, addicted Harry also resulted in unwanted changes. ‘‘When you do comedy, at the end of each week you’re quite happy, coz you’ve spent the whole week laughing and making other people laugh. But now I understand why some dramatic actors go off the rails. ‘‘Even though you’re acting [messed] up, even though that’s all
made up, your body I think still physiologically goes through the processes because your brain and your hormones . . . [don’t] know that you’re just pretending. ‘‘And my body did change. I ended up drinking way more than I kind of tend to do, and now that it’s all finished I’m trying to cut back.’’ Kightley’s transformation into his dramatic role was all too convincing for some Harry fans. ‘‘When you do comedy, most of the time when people come up they’re laughing or smiling, or saying how much they enjoyed something. This time around, the looks I got were a bit weird. Kind of like looking at me in a new light. Which
I couldn’t understand because I’m still the same person inside. ‘‘The day after the first episode aired, I walked past a couple of uniformed cops and they called me Harry and laughed. Which was funny. ‘‘And then in the first week, I’d gone to a hip-hop concert in [Auckland’s] K Rd and I had this kind of heavy-looking guy standing in front of me, coming up to me calling me Harry all night and . . . telling me stories like he’d just done 20 years in Pare max [Paremoremo Prison’s maximum-security unit]. And I was like, ‘Aw, OK’. It was a little bit [uneasy] . . . he did seem a little bit tense. I think he actually thought I
was the character [Harry]. He was saying [things] like, ‘You think you’re a bad ass . . .’’ Kightley is flattered his portrayal of Harry has been so realistic, and the show has been critically acclaimed and a ratings hit. ‘‘It’s been amazing. I’ve got an Instagram and a Facebook, and it’s not even just my friends who are saying nice things. Now it’s people I don’t even know, and it’s young and it’s old, and it’s people from inside the industry and people outside it . . . you know just punters who just like watching good TV.’’ He thinks the storylines’ gritty realism – P-manufacturing bikie gangs, armed robberies, a bar brawl and a couple of sex scenes included – has resonated with fans. ‘‘I think a lot of shows are based on what the writers have seen previously on TV, whereas with this we tried to base it on stuff that’s happened in real life.’’ One social phenomenon graphically addressed is the scourge of methamphetamine. Kightley says he knows people who have been stricken by the drug and people who are still struggling with it. ‘‘And I’m sure lots of [other] people do. I think that’s a sign of just how common it is. It’s not one particular group in society. It cuts across industries, it cuts across socio-economics. We didn’t pluck any of this P stuff out of the air, it was just a matter of looking around.’’ Kightley hopes Harry will be shown in Australia. The superstar casting of Sam Neill as Harry’s boss, Detective Senior Sergeant Jim ‘Stocks’ Stockton, is sure to add to interest across the Ditch. Kightley is also keen for Harry 2. Series one ended with Harry facing professional damnation, but personal salvation. Some 10 months on from the finish of filming, Kightley is asked whether he is in any way like its lead character. ‘‘I’m not Harry. But when you’re playing a character, you can’t create a completely new person from scratch. You are always drawing from aspects of your own person and your life. So probably a certain part of me is.’’
NEWS BOATIES’ DRAMATIC RESCUE
Three boaties were rescued at 8.15pm yesterday after more than two hours in the water near Kawhia after their 7m hard-top boat capsized. Two were discovered clinging to the hull while a third was rescued floating nearby. Meanwhile, a search was launched at 6.30pm for two trampers in trouble on Mt Taranaki as the weather deteriorated.
LABOUR TAKES BY-ELECTION
Labour is celebrating victory in the Ikaroa-Rawhiti by-election. With 96.4 per cent of the polling booths counted, Labour candidate Meka Whaitiri held a lead of 1700 votes from the Mana Party’s Te Hamua Nikora. The Maori Party’s Na Raihania was third, followed by the Green Party’s Marama Davidson.
IT’S A WRAP FOR GANDALF
Sir Ian McKellen has played wizard Gandalf for the last time, as shooting wrapped for a number of The Hobbit’s major characters. Sir Peter Jackson shared a picture of himself and McKellen yesterday, just after shooting ended for the Grey Wizard on Friday night. ‘‘I’m feeling very sad right now,’’ Jackson said.
CHCH PLEDGES LOST
Six ceremonial volumes of signatures and comments of 12,000 Christchurch people who made an emotional pledge to back the city after the February 22 earthquake have been lost. They were supposed to be handed to the council as a part of the city’s quake history.
FOUR HURT IN CRASH
Four people were hospitalised after a car hit a power pole in the Auckland suburb of Devonport yesterday. The car crashed through a wooden fence and ripped out fruit trees before stopping metres from a house at 4.30am.
MAORI WELL-GOOGLED
A Maori-language version of Google’s search homepage is used ‘‘tens of thousands of times per day’’, says Google Australia’s Annie Baxter, ahead of Maori Language Week.