- I'm enjoying the challenge. Emotionally it's been hard. When I'm shooting tragic scenes and I need to think of something really terrible, I think of how I'd feel if something happened to my kids. You've really got to go there emotionally and it takes it out of you.
- That final scene in the first episode where the governor is killed, I don't think there has ever been another Australian drama that has done something like that, killing off someone they had set up as a main character in the first episode.I thought it was brilliant and it really set the tone of what we have been able to do in the show and the fact the writers aren't afraid to do something that other shows might think is too risky.
- I think any actor who came in and picked up this story would be excited by what I get to do.
- [Discussing his character Will in Wentworth (2013) season 5]: What led him there was years and years of being manipulated, being framed, having his wife killed and knowing the killer, losing Bea, but you never expect Will would have that in him, it is such a hideous act, burying someone alive. He has finally broken and what he did weighs heavily on him and it affects him on a daily basis. That burden, that guilt, he carries it with him every day. When he is at the prison he sees reminders of Ferguson everywhere and when he is at home there's the voices which he can't escape.
- All I wanted to do was "woo hoo".
- [Discussing Season 5 of Wentworth]: They had this big van in a rotisserie and there was guys doing their thing and Tammy (co-star Tammy MacIntosh) doing her thing and I'm like 'Woah..'
- But I have learnt that in their times of darkness I just need to be there.
- Through our relationship I have learnt so much about the real pain depression and anxiety can cause and the bravery it takes to live with it every day.
- [on the death of his brother Pua]; When I was in Melbourne, I had reached out and said I was worried about him. I could foresee the fall. I'd suggested a counsellor, but he didn't want to hear it.
- I was forced to face up to the things that I did to people who really didn't deserve it. I went through a lot of guilt, which manifested as anger. It wasn't a good time for a new relationship. We never got a honeymoon period. There were a couple of times when it was all over.
- I was only away for a couple of months, but it gave me a lot of time to think about the relationship, my career path and what I wanted in life. While I still intend to work in America, I realised that I love New Zealand too much to pack my bags forever. But most of all, I realised I wanted to be with Nat and my family.
- Yeah, me and Danielle Cormack started riding during season two of Wentworth. We probably weren't supposed to with our contracts. We started off with cruisers and just got hooked. Dan still has my first bike, a Yamaha 650 cruiser. I bought a Harley streetbike when I came back after season five. I'm an emotional buyer. I've had terrible luck with cars. Every car I buy craps out. A Range Rover was the most embarrassing one. I spent thousands on it but it was a dud. I think I was going through a mid-life crisis. I bought a surfboard too.
- I didn't encourage or discourage him. I think it motivated him seeing me pursue that career path. He thought, "Well if my brother can do it..."
- Mental health is a really important issue for me and it's important we're having these conversations both on and off the stage.
- The Strathmore Primary talent quest; I remember performing and all the kids laughing and clapping. I just loved it. At Marist Holy Cross I did musicals. My sixth form drama teacher picked three of us Polynesian boys to audition for a commercial his friend was casting. On the bus trip there me and my mates Henry and Noel all said, "If you get it I'll be happy for you" to each other. At the audition they asked us to walk down a corridor and act excited as each door opened on to a new career. I was the tallest and as soon as they said "action", I was right out the front going, "Ooh, I could do that! Ooh! Ahh!" I was in the moment. On the bus trip home the boys were really quiet. I said, "How do you think you went?" and Henry goes, "I don't know. I wasn't seen. Someone hogged the camera." He still brings up that story.
- That wasn't a good phone call. When Dad answered, he was all chipper, and then I had to tell him and he started wailing.
- The only thing I fully remember about coming back is hopping off the plane in Wellington and getting on the escalator and remembering how fricken cold Wellington was. The steam would come out of our mouths and we'd pretend to smoke for ages. It was the coolest thing in the word.
- It can't be all Shortland Street any more... I loved Shortland Street, but I could never get [into] my lines, because they were so, so hard. It was hard to read - it never came off the page naturally. There's a structure there, where you have to recap what Dr Maxwell did two weeks ago, and that's not challenging [for] the viewers. I think there's a whole trend where the viewers want to be challenged now.
- I was inspired to give back to the Auckland City Mission after reading a recent article about how each year at Christmas, the queues outside the Mission are getting longer with more and more people in need of food parcels, presents and special grants.
- When I read the character breakdown, I thought, 'This guy is an Australian.' I didn't think I would have a shot of ever getting this. But I got the job.
- It was an eye-opener, but in a good way. We walked into those meetings and they don't get many Polynesians walking through their doors.
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