Blair Strang: A career resurrected...

Interview – 2012

Actor Blair Strang (Hapū Patuharakeke) shot to fame playing likeable ambulance driver Rangi in Shortland Street. After six years, he quit the show and later returned to law school. Since then, his career has mixed law work with TV roles in Go Girls, Spin Doctors, Doves of War, Orange Roughies and Nothing Trivial.

In this ScreenTalk, Strang talks about:

Getting a role on The Billy T James Show through his friend, actor Ilona Rodgers
Noticing Billy T's shyness when he wasn't performing
Being told off by his mother after getting a role on Shortland Street
How the role of Rangi on the soap changed over time
Why he left the show after six years
Feeling he did a bad job on soap satire Spin Doctors
How trying something different at the audition helped get him a role in miniseries Doves of War
Playing with guns and getting soaked in Orange Roughies
Why playing Brian on hit show Nothing Trivial has been his favourite role to date

This video was first uploaded on 11 April 2012, 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 knew we had a good thing. I remember turning to the core cast, and I said 'you know we’ve got a great script here - really great script. If this doesn’t work, it ain’t the script, it's us! So we better start working.'
– Blair Strange on TV series Nothing Trivial

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