ScreenTalk: Ben Barrington
16 Oct 2015
Ben Barrington began his screen career on Wellington-based TV show The Strip.
Ben Barrington began his screen career on Wellington-based TV show The Strip. He won the role of a doctor on the acclaimed The Insiders Guide to Happiness before appearing as a gang leader in Outrageous Fortune.
Since then, Barrington has co-starred as a Norse god in The Almighty Johnsons, shown some fancy footwork on Dancing with the Stars, and in 2015 began playing a doctor again on Shortland Street.
In this ScreenTalk, Barrington talks about:
- Getting his start on TV show The Strip
- How offbeat TV series The Insider’s Guide to Happiness still holds up today
- Playing a gang leader on the drama Outrageous Fortune
- Having "non-stop fun" on the set of The Almighty Johnsons
- Commuting across the Tasman to play the romantic interest in Aussie hit Offspring
- The 24/7 challenge of participating in Dancing with the Stars
- His role on Shortland Street as "playful, provocative, annoying" Doctor Drew McCaskill
This video is available on YouTube to embed and distribute via this Creative Commons licence.
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