Peter Tait

The versatile Peter Tait has shown an extremely keen eye over which short films to act in. His CV includes memorable roles in a run of offbeat classics: from legendary horror short Kitchen Sink (playing a very strange discovery) to The Singing Trophy (as an obsessed hunter), to Alison Maclean drama Talkback (an aggressive talkback caller) and satire Mon Desir (a boring husband). Tait has also created a number of his own projects — comical cricket short Bradman, postman tale Postscript, and two low-budget features: Back River Road, which was nominated for an NZ Film Award, and ensemble movie Not Set in Stone.

...he came in and did an audition for me for Kitchen Sink, and he just had this amazing quality — like someone who had just been born. A certain kind of innocence that is at odds with his appearance. He just has such a very strong, physical presence. Director Alison Maclean on Peter Tait, in issue 13 of P.O.V, March 2002