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David Wenham is proud of his telemovie collaboration with New Zealand's finest exports, writes Robert Fidgeon
DAVID Wenham isn't into interviews. Tougher than any acting role, it's a facet of the business he regards as an obligation rather than a pleasure.
Though he's always charming, you just know he'd rather be doing something else.
"You have to publicise your project," he says. "It's just I don't find it easy talking about acting."
This interview, however, is going like a dream, possibly because Wenham is with friends and business partners, Kiwis Sam Neill and John Clarke.
The trio pooled their impressive individual talents to produce two telemovies, based on the novels Stiff and The Brush Off, by Melbourne writer Shane Maloney. Both feature the exploits -- misadventures is probably more apt -- of political troubleshooter Murray Whelan.
Wenham stars as Whelan,...
