Lisa Harrow: A homegrown international actor..

Interview – 2015

Lisa Harrow left New Zealand in the 1960s to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in England, a move that cemented her love of theatre and later enabled her to build an international screen career. She returned to New Zealand to star in locally-shot movies Other Halves and Shaker Run.

In this ScreenTalk, Harrow talks about:

Playing a woman across more than 50 years of her life, as the star of acclaimed BBC series Nancy Astor
How a role in movie Other Halves enabled her to come back to New Zealand
Doing all sorts of dangerous stunts for car chase movie Shaker Run
Hating working with American actor Cliff Robertson
Enjoying working on Australian film The Last Days of Chez Nous
Making "ludicrous" Omen movie The Final Conflict with Sam Neill
Filming papal drama From a Far Country under the threat of a Russian invasion
Loving playing the grandmother in TV series Step Dave
Her dream that a director will cast her as a feisty old woman in a New Zealand film

This video was first uploaded on 9 January 2015, and is available under this Creative Commons licence. This licence is limited to use of ScreenTalk interview footage only and does not apply to any video content and photographs from films, television, music videos, web series and commercials used in the interview.

Interview, Camera and Editing – Andrew Whiteside

We filmed in Auschwitz, we filmed in Rome . . . I got to lie on the floor of the Sistine Chapel alone . . . they didn't want a Western film crew there making a film about this subversive pope called John Paul the Second, so we were being monitored.
– Lisa Harrow recalls making 1981 movie From a Far Country

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