Henshin! Online. GODZILLA FINAL WARS INTERVIEWS: THE NEW YORK COP AND THE GANGSTER PIMPActors MICK PRESTON and DARREN SCHNASE discuss their encounter with Rodan in GFWAuthor: Keith Aiken. Special thanks to Joe Fenech, Aaron Smith, and James Ballard for photo assistance. New York City on cold, wet night: A police officer (Mick Preston) oversees the towing of an illegally parked car when he is confronted by the vehicle's owner; a gangster pimp (Darren Schnase). The two argue and things escalate to the point that they pull guns on each other. A bum sitting on a discarded couch watches the standoff until something in the sky catches his attention.. For Godzilla's 5. Shogo Tomiyama and director Ryuhei Kitamura aimed for a larger scale, more global type of story than had long been seen in the Godzilla series. In addition to shooting in multiple international locations- New York, Paris, Shanghai, Sydney- - FINAL WARS also features several gaijin (foreigner) performers, including K- 1 fighting star Don Frye in the lead role of Gotengo Captain Douglas Gordon, and actors Darren Schnase and Mick Preston in key supporting parts in the New York sequence. Darren Schnase and Mick Preston differed from the norm in that both are professional actors with extensive credits in theater, commercials, and television. Schnase's credits include stage productions of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (2. KISS ME KATE (2. 00. Australian TV dramas LIFE SUPPORT(2. ALL SAINTS (2. 00. Preston had a recurring role in the long- running soap opera GUIDING LIGHT, performed with Tony Randall on LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN, acted in several award- winning independent films including the Sundance/Project Greenlight finalist ACCOMPLICE, LITTLE XMAS, THE APARTMENT, THE ROMANTIC COMEDY WITH AN EDGE, and THE BIRTHDAY PARTY, and appeared with his legendary teacher Uta Hagen and actresses Amanda Peet and Marlo Thomas in the film ACTING WITH UTA HAGEN (2. Both auditioned multiple times for their roles in GODZILLA FINAL WARS and were finally selected from a group of more than two hundred hopefuls. ONLINE: Thank you for taking the time to talk about your work in GODZILLA FINAL WARS. Let's start with a little personal history; would you tell me a bit about your backgrounds? After that I moved to the US where I lived for eleven years; I lived for nine of those years in New York and Los Angeles for two. Currently I'm living in Sydney, Australia. After I finished high school I drifted from job to job; I think I had about 1. I did everything from living in a house with 4 intellectually disabled men to playing a schizophrenic character for doctors to assess in a hospital (like that episode of SEINFELD where Kramer does the same thing). I also went to college and got myself a teaching degree. Englewood Cliffs, N.J: Prentice-Hall. E., Muller-Beck, H., Vasilievsky, R. And at some point I fell in love with traveling. I've been to about 3. Morocco, Brazil, Moscow, Croatia - - Southeast Asia a lot. The United States is located in the southern part of the North American continent. Its mainland is south of Canada and north of. La plus importante base de donn. El rey de los Juegos Ol Eine mehrfache Stimmenabgabe f I hadn't really known many actors before. The college where I did my teaching degree (Rusden College in Melbourne) had a drama department- - Rachel Griffiths . I remember always running into these actors and disliking them intensely because they were always singing and hugging each other and full of smiles. Scribd is the world's largest social reading and publishing site. The City Hall of Pasig has undergone a number of iterations since 1967, when it was a mere four-storey structure with 1, 200 square meters of floor area. Henshin!Headlines for 2005: 12/17/05: DVD Review ZERO WOMAN: RED HANDCUFFS Ass-Kicking, Eye-Gouging, Bone-Breaking Female Super Cop on R1 DVD! Author: August Ragone. I was usually unhappy and a bit shy, so I thought that if that's what it takes to be an actor then there's no way I could do it. But when I met this girl she wasn't like that at all. She was quite intense. She told me about this teacher in New York named Uta Hagen and showed me her book 'Respect for Acting'. So I decided to try career number 1. New York. I told my folks I'd see how I liked it over there and if I didn't like it then I'd be back in 6 weeks. I finally made it home! Within 9 days of arriving there I'd been cast in a play and a short film. And as soon as I stepped onto a stage I just fell in love with it. She was one of those great teachers from the same era as Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler, Stanford Meisner, and so on. She's influenced many American and foreign actors of this and previous generations. Matthew Broderick, who starred in the American GODZILLA, trained with her. I studied with her for several years. It was an amazing experience. She also asked me to be one of only a few of her students to appear in her film ACTING WITH UTA HAGEN. I had several other terrific teachers in New York too, such as Austin Pendleton and Carol Rosenfield. Carol became like a mentor to me. She was also a brilliant teacher because she was so attuned to the actor, their instrument, and to the world around her. I'm still in frequent contact with her. My father was in Viet Nam and had R& R in Sydney and met my mother there. Things were going well; he proposed to her, she said yes, he came back to America and she followed soon after. They got married over here and she was here for about three years. Things didn't work out as sometimes happens in this day and age. After a custody battle she eventually got custody of me and we went back to Australia when I was two and a half years old. We went straight to my grandparents' place in Brisbane and I was there until I was 2. After that I thought it was time I went to Europe. I spent 5 months on the Greek islands, just bartending and having a good time, then spent two months traveling on a Eurorail pass. I tried to find work in Austria, at Kitzburg- - the ski resorts there. It's a lot different over here.. Money was getting a bit short so I thought I needed to find work soon. So I headed over to England for 6 months and bartended in Rochester, Essex. By the end of that it was 3 and half years since I'd left and I was starting to get a little bit homesick and missing my friends.. I was 2. 7 by that stage. So I thought I'd go back to Australia and started getting serious about my acting. Then I auditioned for a drama school in Australia called NIDA that's based in Sydney- Cate Blanchett and Mel Gibson are former students there. I finished up there at the end of 2. By that stage I was three years out of school, and I thought I'd gone as far as I could go in Australia with my look, my ethnicity. I'd also planned to go back to the States, y'know- particularly for actors, you can't beat New York or LA. I came over about 4 months ago. I got back from Tokyo and I started arranging for the movers to pack up my house, giving my landlord notice, closing off the phone bill, all that sort of stuff. I've gone full circle.. I started off in Brisbane, moved to Sydney, then overseas, then back to Brisbane, Sydney, then here again. Monday morning comes around and my agent rings me up and says, . So I paid a $1. 5 'cancellation and change of flight' fee and got back there that same day. So I called up in my best 'Brooklynese' and asked to audition. My auditions took place at a hotel near Darling Harbour; Toho hired out one of the suites there. They weren't specifically saying, . I think he came along for the callbacks. There was about three or four of the crew there, and I was deposited in a waiting room with about 1. And we just went in there and they were chucking us all up amongst different scenes. I was doing the police officer in the gangster scene; there were two brothers breaking into a car and the police officer was coming over and busting them when Rodan comes down the main drag in New York. We all just chucked the roles around, y'know- -I played the police officer, then I played the gangster, then one of the brothers- and we all just played around with it. About a week later I got a callback, and that's when Ryuhei was there. It was pretty much the same thing again but with a little more improv.. When we were done they said I should hear from them by the end of the next week. And then about three, three and half weeks later I got a call from my agent saying, . It was at a hotel in the city. There was a script, but we had the freedom to go off the page. At the callbacks I auditioned with probably seven or eight other actors and was there for a long time. Ryuhei Kitamura would call us in in groups of two or three and give us different scenarios to perform. He also had us play different characters.. I was a little disappointed I didn't get that part actually. I think I would have made a great black pimp! Someone (an Australian.. I won't say who!) told me that for the New York role they were looking for a cross between Freddie Prinze Jr. They told me that I should probably add some quirky behavior because I was probably too normal looking and so was a real longshot to get the part. Anyway, so I added a few ticks, some drooling.. They just played around and whoever they thought suited that character best, that would put them into that role. Did it bother you at all being cast in a Japanese Godzilla movie, and your role was that of a gangster pimp? That's pretty much all I was ever cast for in Australia; gangsters, thugs, pimps, tough guys, the black guy with the chip on his shoulder. I was lucky enough to get on the Australian version of ER called ALL SAINTS, and I got cast as a pilot- with a cocaine problem.. I did one of her workshops and she really liked my work and gave me the opportunity to audition for ALL SAINTS. But everything else.. And it was a trip to Japan, y'know, and I was getting paid for it - I wasn't going to say 'No' to that. What were they called in the script? I don't think there was enough to my character to give him a background about where he grew up and why he hates the NYPD. Our scenes were in English and below it was the Japanese translation. I was sitting at a caf. So in a moment of panic I jumped up and told my brother that I was going to have to go off and find someone who could speak Japanese; I needed someone to translate because it had gotten too late to call anyone and my audition was first thing in the morning. So I went everywhere looking for someone who could speak the language. Finally, someone in a Japanese restaurant told me that the lines were the same, but just repeated in Japanese! I wouldn't say I was a die- hard fan, though- I certainly haven't seen all 2. Atlas liecivych rastlin a lesnych plodov. 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