June 20, 2024 • 13 mins
Temuera Morrison is one of this county’s most successful actors.
He garnered critical acclaim for his staring role as Jake ‘The Muss’ Heke in Once Were Warriors in 1994 and has since gone on to work with some of the biggest names in Hollywood.
He’s starred in Aquaman, The Green Lantern, River Queen and has become a critical part of the Star Wars empire playing the iconic character Boba Fett.
He’s starring in a new kiwi film Ka Whawhai Tonu, alongside Cliff Curtis and Jason Flymyng, which tells the story of a pivotal battle in the first New Zealand land wars in the Waikato region.
Temuera Morrison was Simon Barnett and James Daniels guest for this weeks' Six and a Song.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Simon Barnett and James Daniels Afternoons
podcast from News Talks EDB.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
News Talks hed B. Tamiwe To Morrison is one of
this country's most successful and I might say beloved actors.
He garnered critical acclaim, of course, for his role as
Jake the Musshecke in Once We're Worries in nineteen ninety
four to thirty years ago. He's since gone on to
work with some of the biggest names in Hollywood. He
starred in Aquaman, The Green Lantern River Queen. He's become
a critical part of the Star Wars Empire, playing the
iconic character Boba Fett. He's starring in a new Kiwi film,
(00:36):
Carfar Pai Tonu, alongside Cliff Curtis and Jason Fleming, which
tells the story of a pivotal battle in the New
Zealand Land Wars in the White Cutsal region. The film
was out June twenty seven, count Waste. It is a
pleasure to welcome Tammyweird to Morrison on for six in
a song.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Kyota, Kyota, thank you very much. What an introduction?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Thirty years say all of that, You're most deserving of
that introduction. When that rolls off the tongue thirty years ago,
I wonder is it ever a bug bear? I mean
the rolling stones always get seen as the satisfaction and
Russell Crowe will forever be the gladiator in a way,
Tim you will always be Jake the mass. Is that
a problem or is it wonderful?
Speaker 3 (01:14):
I guess it's iconic and away. I was also pretty
famous as doctor Rapata the week before taking the mask. Yeah,
Guatemala now, and then there was not in Guatemala too?
Can you cook them in some eggs? And then some
of these things become a T shirt? So yes, I'll
(01:34):
speak aller Once We're Warriors for me, coming switching from
Doctor Opata, took the doctor's coat of Friday night, had
a haircut for Jake. Heck Saturday. I was rolling on
Monday on Once We're Warriors Wow for five weeks Street
the week after week six and I couldn't stop swearing
at everybody.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
How did you start acting?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
I was an extra in movies. There was a TV
show called Mortimers Patch way back in the day. Yeah, yeah,
there's a very older actors. Back in the day, there
was dance. I went around. I was used as an
extra crossing the Road, and then I did a couple
of little movies, a couple of other TV shows, just
sort of running around having smaller roles, and then I
(02:19):
ended up working on the production side as well on
a movie like The Piano here. But I was an extra.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Tim you're obviously being involved with some I mean some
massive operations working with Disney in the Star Wars universe.
Is Disney a different beast to work for than pet
some of your other roles.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Big lunches have choices of chicken, fish, sell buffet goes
on for miles. There's Mexican cooks going on. They started
at eleven and finished it about a quarter to three,
So you're gonna have three lunches if you're clever like me,
going for the first cut, sneak off from to the set.
(02:59):
You're always waiting around doing something. They always got a
light that was to take a half an hour for something. Yeah,
So big, huge lunches, big huge productions. Now, even the
technology that they don't call them studios or they call
them the volume now where you can create the sets
on the wall all around you. You're surrounded in the
set itself. It's not so much blue or green screens anymore. So, right, Yeah,
(03:20):
But at the end of the day, someone's got a camera,
there's lights, and then someone says action and it's all quiet.
That's my time to shine. And that's what I chose.
I chose to be in front of the camera, and
I chose to go to Hollywood. I wanted to go
over there and see if I could get one movie.
That's all I wanted, just to show that because he
brows at home, see we can do it, we can
(03:40):
do it.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
So that takes you to this new movie car Fi
Tornu and the brutality of the invasion of Wykat or
can you tell us a little bit about the movie?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
What?
Speaker 4 (03:50):
What is the storyline.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
It's a beautiful story that my friend Mike Jonathan, the director,
came up with. It's really a payback time. He wanted
me to be in this film and he supported me
so much. So it's a well. The eighteen sixty four
Battle of Raco was a real They only got to
drive down the Ork the motorway to see all the
signs of Redoubt Road ranged all the Great South Road
(04:14):
was all formed from those battles. That took place in
those early eighteen sixties, and this is the second to
last one that General Cameron had seventeen hundred troops. It's
our three hundred story, the story of three hundred women
and children included. Fighteen seventeen hundred soldiers didn't last very long.
It is only a three day affair. There was a
whole lot of politics going on, Baldi politics, a whole
lot of Christian fighting under Christian rule a rule. So
(04:36):
it's a fictitional story within a real live event, the
eighteen sixty four Battle of Aracos from that part of
the world, the rolling hills of the king Country. My mum,
we've got a couple of farms over there still where
the Staffords, the Omohungers, the Nikoras, the Bahettants, got a
rich history over there. That's my mom's side. We buried
(04:57):
her over there a few couple of years ago, just
to remind ourselves that we're from that area. That cup
of mutty money Apoto.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Yeah, there was very maniapoto and you have a link
to there be money a portal.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Yes, I tie in through pop up to you there to
put mysel was very much an honor those people were
special people, you know they could They just abilities were
just incredible to run a tribe a hapu far no uh,
you know it's plant food. Even their ability to be
in touch with the cosmos. There were warfare they were warriors.
There were poets and agriculturalists, so amazing people.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Tim, I wonder how you feel about watching yourself on
screen now. I read a story in Vanity Fear from
Jamie Lee Curtis and she just won't watch yourself now.
She said, it's too torrid. Do you watch yourself? Do
you enjoy seeing yourself on screen?
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Not? Really? Kind of shy away, look the other way
where every time I'm on screen, it's like listening to
my voice the wing on. You're doing a recording. But
now you've got to put up with your ugly face
as well. A lot going on, and I remember it
puts me on because I just remember the day. Do
you remember that day? There's so many ones and you
(06:08):
James Cowen went about and spoke to a lot of
the surviving members and wrote a lot of their accounts
of the battle. It was quite a fascinating time. It'll
wokened me to how how we settled this place. You
know it wasn't just turn up and have a cup
of tea in Scans. Okay, you fellows can start farming
and milking your cows over there, and we'll carry on
running our stuff over here. No no bit of Scottish,
(06:32):
Irish English, Maudi all mixed up with Christianity. Man, it
must have been a weird time for Topona. But I
just think that people like there. We and t remember
they were all running New Zealand. It was a border.
You had to ask permission to go through any of
their tribal lands or if you didn't pay the toll,
well sometimes that could be met with some very severe circumstances.
(06:55):
And what happened was they crossed the river one with
dy river all blew the trump and the Battle of
Raco is all part of that. So amazing just to
have this film made amazing. I'm very proud of my
friend Michael Jonathan.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Tim Is speaking of Hollywood. Is it a treadmill? Do we,
you know, just Kiwis have any idea of how exhaustive
it is and or is it? Is it just you
get a sense that you know you're either in the
crowd or you're not in the crowd. In Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Is it like that temperature, You're either simmering, cold or hot.
It's got to be hot. Sometimes you slip back to simmering.
But it's about temperature. It's about There was a time
when the Australian were getting quite a bit of notice.
Australian actresses and my agent I've been through. I had
an agent over there that always used to keep me
(07:43):
in tune with what's going on over there. A lot
of I remember, Kevin Smith, Cliff Curtis, all of us
were over there at the same time looking on a door.
Kevin or sleeping on people's couches, waited five years before
you've probably got a move and then tragically passed away
before you're supposed to do his big Hollywood movie. But
he spent his time sleeping on friends couches. Martin Henderson
(08:06):
or all of them, Carloban, they're all over there. You
can actually have a meeting of some of the key
We actors, all the unemployed key We actors all living out.
You've got to have friends over there so you can
stay and then just go to meetings, go to audition
and give it a nudge. That's all I did. I
only wanted to go see one. I remember doing the piano,
annoying people like Sam Nilko Bro, what's my chance come
over there? Do you think I should go? I feel
(08:27):
so stupid now even asking us.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
No, it's brilliant. We are loving chatting with you, Tim,
really really interesting news talks. It'd be our special guest
is Timuita Morrison, one of New Zealand's finest and most
successful actors. Thank you again, mate, very much for your time.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Tim, Tim very much for having me. Thank you very
much for having me. Thank you for plugging this movie.
It's one of those movies that it gets you thinking about,
you know, how you and I brother came to be
in this land. So so peace go support it. We
do things pretty tight budget. Why so Loda Love was
involved and it's got a lot of spirits. So cut
puff fight on opening the twenty seven.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Yes, some quick fire questions, Tim Wita, What's what? What's
one place you can never get tired of?
Speaker 1 (09:11):
All?
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Definitely at Broadbeach. There's two places. Yeah, probably it's just fantastic,
nice but a little bit warmer all my everyone seems
to be fit over there, so you kind of get
on that treadmill and uh yeah, just great for you.
Great restaurants, love the place.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Given yours such a famous actor. Now do friends and
family ask you for money?
Speaker 3 (09:30):
No, no, they all know not to come to uncle
because he's always been broken, given all his money away. Anyway,
it's about the koha, It's about the turn up to
all the funerals, give a bit of a cor had down, Yes, lovely,
and then they remember they remember, too.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Nice, lovely. Hey, what's something you thought was important when
you were young, but as you got older you've realized
it wasn't.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Well back in now day, Well, I brought up like rugby.
The boys played rugby, the girls played net ball, and
I think we susid dream too much. It was all
about how much, how many bottles you could consume and
be a man. But now I realized, man, those were
stupid who was absolutely ridiculous. Finally got to Auckland with
a head. Salads and the salad and walnuts in the salad.
(10:14):
I've got seen this stuff before. We were just taught
to be drunken and drink all the beer.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Walnuts of salad. That's very funny.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
That's very funny quantity beer drinkers. So I'm glad we've
kind of cafes come along and closed all those public bars.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Hey, front of the nicest compliments you've ever received in
your life.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Wow. Just the other night at the Premiere, best work
I've seen you do, best workout i've seen you do.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
That's really good to hear. If you had the power
to change one thing in your world, what would it be.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
I've got to get better at our language, the Maori language.
It's one of these things I've always just taken for
granted personally. I need to expand and get the language
really flowing and just making it more common in my life.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
You need to spend more time with my son in
law and your cousin Scottie Morrison.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Hey, I'm doing that. I saw all your pins. I
asked for a pin while I was recently there, and
there were pins with your name on it. They had
boxes full of it, yellow and silver fans. I've never
seen so many fans with James Daniels on it. I
was right there improving, doing exactly what you said.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Hey, what are you most proud of in your life?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
I think I'm just proud to be I'm representing two sides.
My mom came from a very humble place, hunger ticket
the country and my dad was Rotorua man Morrison, so
I was just proud to get both sides of that.
Just amazing. Loss of the haystack makers from the farmland
and hung a tickey and over here in the Morrison
family and uncle how became very famous and we were
(11:44):
quite a famous singing cultural family. So just pleased to
have those as an upbringing.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Very nice. If you could invite one person still alive
for dinner, who would you invite?
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Well, gee, probably one of those good actors now like
Daniel day Lewis, probably one of the best actors in
the world, who can just take you to a place.
Maybe that director be on the list. To Ridley's Scott,
I'd love to have dinner with Ridley Scott. Say, Ridley,
what are we working on next?
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Good on you mate, We have loved chatting with you.
Just before you go. What choice of song and why this?
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Please? I'd love to hear ten guitars. I hope you've
got the ingle bird humperting version we have. This takes
me back to a time of the sixties where the
summers seemed to go on and on. My dad and
then love people like Chubby Checker and all the music,
Tom Jones, Ingle Bird, Sammy Davis Junior and all that
time where they were sort of just a magical time
(12:38):
for me as a boy growing up in the sixties
listening to all the music. I've just come from two
big families, so very grateful and that song kind of
just came out and became our party song too. Well.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
We're going to play it for you, the Engelbert version,
and just to remind that, just a reminder folks. Tim's
latest film is out June twenty seven. It's called carfar
Fyn are getting rave reviews already with advanced screenings. Tim,
all the very best with that and your career and
your life. Mate, Thank you for your time.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Thank you again, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
James tell you with the Morrison and this is his
song ten Guitars and News Talk zed B.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Dance Dance, Dance to Guitar very soon, you know.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Just twelve For more from Simon Barnett and James Daniels afternoons,
listen live to News Talks ed B, or follow the
podcast on iHeartRadio.
You're listening to the Simon Barnett and James Daniels Afternoons
podcast from News Talks EDB.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
News Talks hed B. Tamiwe To Morrison is one of
this country's most successful and I might say beloved actors.
He garnered critical acclaim, of course, for his role as
Jake the Musshecke in Once We're Worries in nineteen ninety
four to thirty years ago. He's since gone on to
work with some of the biggest names in Hollywood. He
starred in Aquaman, The Green Lantern River Queen. He's become
a critical part of the Star Wars Empire, playing the
iconic character Boba Fett. He's starring in a new Kiwi film,
(00:36):
Carfar Pai Tonu, alongside Cliff Curtis and Jason Fleming, which
tells the story of a pivotal battle in the New
Zealand Land Wars in the White Cutsal region. The film
was out June twenty seven, count Waste. It is a
pleasure to welcome Tammyweird to Morrison on for six in
a song.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Kyota, Kyota, thank you very much. What an introduction?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Thirty years say all of that, You're most deserving of
that introduction. When that rolls off the tongue thirty years ago,
I wonder is it ever a bug bear? I mean
the rolling stones always get seen as the satisfaction and
Russell Crowe will forever be the gladiator in a way,
Tim you will always be Jake the mass. Is that
a problem or is it wonderful?
Speaker 3 (01:14):
I guess it's iconic and away. I was also pretty
famous as doctor Rapata the week before taking the mask. Yeah,
Guatemala now, and then there was not in Guatemala too?
Can you cook them in some eggs? And then some
of these things become a T shirt? So yes, I'll
(01:34):
speak aller Once We're Warriors for me, coming switching from
Doctor Opata, took the doctor's coat of Friday night, had
a haircut for Jake. Heck Saturday. I was rolling on
Monday on Once We're Warriors Wow for five weeks Street
the week after week six and I couldn't stop swearing
at everybody.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
How did you start acting?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
I was an extra in movies. There was a TV
show called Mortimers Patch way back in the day. Yeah, yeah,
there's a very older actors. Back in the day, there
was dance. I went around. I was used as an
extra crossing the Road, and then I did a couple
of little movies, a couple of other TV shows, just
sort of running around having smaller roles, and then I
(02:19):
ended up working on the production side as well on
a movie like The Piano here. But I was an extra.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Tim you're obviously being involved with some I mean some
massive operations working with Disney in the Star Wars universe.
Is Disney a different beast to work for than pet
some of your other roles.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Big lunches have choices of chicken, fish, sell buffet goes
on for miles. There's Mexican cooks going on. They started
at eleven and finished it about a quarter to three,
So you're gonna have three lunches if you're clever like me,
going for the first cut, sneak off from to the set.
(02:59):
You're always waiting around doing something. They always got a
light that was to take a half an hour for something. Yeah,
So big, huge lunches, big huge productions. Now, even the
technology that they don't call them studios or they call
them the volume now where you can create the sets
on the wall all around you. You're surrounded in the
set itself. It's not so much blue or green screens anymore. So, right, Yeah,
(03:20):
But at the end of the day, someone's got a camera,
there's lights, and then someone says action and it's all quiet.
That's my time to shine. And that's what I chose.
I chose to be in front of the camera, and
I chose to go to Hollywood. I wanted to go
over there and see if I could get one movie.
That's all I wanted, just to show that because he
brows at home, see we can do it, we can
(03:40):
do it.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
So that takes you to this new movie car Fi
Tornu and the brutality of the invasion of Wykat or
can you tell us a little bit about the movie?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
What?
Speaker 4 (03:50):
What is the storyline.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
It's a beautiful story that my friend Mike Jonathan, the director,
came up with. It's really a payback time. He wanted
me to be in this film and he supported me
so much. So it's a well. The eighteen sixty four
Battle of Raco was a real They only got to
drive down the Ork the motorway to see all the
signs of Redoubt Road ranged all the Great South Road
(04:14):
was all formed from those battles. That took place in
those early eighteen sixties, and this is the second to
last one that General Cameron had seventeen hundred troops. It's
our three hundred story, the story of three hundred women
and children included. Fighteen seventeen hundred soldiers didn't last very long.
It is only a three day affair. There was a
whole lot of politics going on, Baldi politics, a whole
lot of Christian fighting under Christian rule a rule. So
(04:36):
it's a fictitional story within a real live event, the
eighteen sixty four Battle of Aracos from that part of
the world, the rolling hills of the king Country. My mum,
we've got a couple of farms over there still where
the Staffords, the Omohungers, the Nikoras, the Bahettants, got a
rich history over there. That's my mom's side. We buried
(04:57):
her over there a few couple of years ago, just
to remind ourselves that we're from that area. That cup
of mutty money Apoto.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Yeah, there was very maniapoto and you have a link
to there be money a portal.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Yes, I tie in through pop up to you there to
put mysel was very much an honor those people were
special people, you know they could They just abilities were
just incredible to run a tribe a hapu far no uh,
you know it's plant food. Even their ability to be
in touch with the cosmos. There were warfare they were warriors.
There were poets and agriculturalists, so amazing people.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Tim, I wonder how you feel about watching yourself on
screen now. I read a story in Vanity Fear from
Jamie Lee Curtis and she just won't watch yourself now.
She said, it's too torrid. Do you watch yourself? Do
you enjoy seeing yourself on screen?
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Not? Really? Kind of shy away, look the other way
where every time I'm on screen, it's like listening to
my voice the wing on. You're doing a recording. But
now you've got to put up with your ugly face
as well. A lot going on, and I remember it
puts me on because I just remember the day. Do
you remember that day? There's so many ones and you
(06:08):
James Cowen went about and spoke to a lot of
the surviving members and wrote a lot of their accounts
of the battle. It was quite a fascinating time. It'll
wokened me to how how we settled this place. You
know it wasn't just turn up and have a cup
of tea in Scans. Okay, you fellows can start farming
and milking your cows over there, and we'll carry on
running our stuff over here. No no bit of Scottish,
(06:32):
Irish English, Maudi all mixed up with Christianity. Man, it
must have been a weird time for Topona. But I
just think that people like there. We and t remember
they were all running New Zealand. It was a border.
You had to ask permission to go through any of
their tribal lands or if you didn't pay the toll,
well sometimes that could be met with some very severe circumstances.
(06:55):
And what happened was they crossed the river one with
dy river all blew the trump and the Battle of
Raco is all part of that. So amazing just to
have this film made amazing. I'm very proud of my
friend Michael Jonathan.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Tim Is speaking of Hollywood. Is it a treadmill? Do we,
you know, just Kiwis have any idea of how exhaustive
it is and or is it? Is it just you
get a sense that you know you're either in the
crowd or you're not in the crowd. In Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Is it like that temperature, You're either simmering, cold or hot.
It's got to be hot. Sometimes you slip back to simmering.
But it's about temperature. It's about There was a time
when the Australian were getting quite a bit of notice.
Australian actresses and my agent I've been through. I had
an agent over there that always used to keep me
(07:43):
in tune with what's going on over there. A lot
of I remember, Kevin Smith, Cliff Curtis, all of us
were over there at the same time looking on a door.
Kevin or sleeping on people's couches, waited five years before
you've probably got a move and then tragically passed away
before you're supposed to do his big Hollywood movie. But
he spent his time sleeping on friends couches. Martin Henderson
(08:06):
or all of them, Carloban, they're all over there. You
can actually have a meeting of some of the key
We actors, all the unemployed key We actors all living out.
You've got to have friends over there so you can
stay and then just go to meetings, go to audition
and give it a nudge. That's all I did. I
only wanted to go see one. I remember doing the piano,
annoying people like Sam Nilko Bro, what's my chance come
over there? Do you think I should go? I feel
(08:27):
so stupid now even asking us.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
No, it's brilliant. We are loving chatting with you, Tim,
really really interesting news talks. It'd be our special guest
is Timuita Morrison, one of New Zealand's finest and most
successful actors. Thank you again, mate, very much for your time.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Tim, Tim very much for having me. Thank you very
much for having me. Thank you for plugging this movie.
It's one of those movies that it gets you thinking about,
you know, how you and I brother came to be
in this land. So so peace go support it. We
do things pretty tight budget. Why so Loda Love was
involved and it's got a lot of spirits. So cut
puff fight on opening the twenty seven.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Yes, some quick fire questions, Tim Wita, What's what? What's
one place you can never get tired of?
Speaker 1 (09:11):
All?
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Definitely at Broadbeach. There's two places. Yeah, probably it's just fantastic,
nice but a little bit warmer all my everyone seems
to be fit over there, so you kind of get
on that treadmill and uh yeah, just great for you.
Great restaurants, love the place.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Given yours such a famous actor. Now do friends and
family ask you for money?
Speaker 3 (09:30):
No, no, they all know not to come to uncle
because he's always been broken, given all his money away. Anyway,
it's about the koha, It's about the turn up to
all the funerals, give a bit of a cor had down, Yes, lovely,
and then they remember they remember, too.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Nice, lovely. Hey, what's something you thought was important when
you were young, but as you got older you've realized
it wasn't.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Well back in now day, Well, I brought up like rugby.
The boys played rugby, the girls played net ball, and
I think we susid dream too much. It was all
about how much, how many bottles you could consume and
be a man. But now I realized, man, those were
stupid who was absolutely ridiculous. Finally got to Auckland with
a head. Salads and the salad and walnuts in the salad.
(10:14):
I've got seen this stuff before. We were just taught
to be drunken and drink all the beer.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Walnuts of salad. That's very funny.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
That's very funny quantity beer drinkers. So I'm glad we've
kind of cafes come along and closed all those public bars.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Hey, front of the nicest compliments you've ever received in
your life.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Wow. Just the other night at the Premiere, best work
I've seen you do, best workout i've seen you do.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
That's really good to hear. If you had the power
to change one thing in your world, what would it be.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
I've got to get better at our language, the Maori language.
It's one of these things I've always just taken for
granted personally. I need to expand and get the language
really flowing and just making it more common in my life.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
You need to spend more time with my son in
law and your cousin Scottie Morrison.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Hey, I'm doing that. I saw all your pins. I
asked for a pin while I was recently there, and
there were pins with your name on it. They had
boxes full of it, yellow and silver fans. I've never
seen so many fans with James Daniels on it. I
was right there improving, doing exactly what you said.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Hey, what are you most proud of in your life?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
I think I'm just proud to be I'm representing two sides.
My mom came from a very humble place, hunger ticket
the country and my dad was Rotorua man Morrison, so
I was just proud to get both sides of that.
Just amazing. Loss of the haystack makers from the farmland
and hung a tickey and over here in the Morrison
family and uncle how became very famous and we were
(11:44):
quite a famous singing cultural family. So just pleased to
have those as an upbringing.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Very nice. If you could invite one person still alive
for dinner, who would you invite?
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Well, gee, probably one of those good actors now like
Daniel day Lewis, probably one of the best actors in
the world, who can just take you to a place.
Maybe that director be on the list. To Ridley's Scott,
I'd love to have dinner with Ridley Scott. Say, Ridley,
what are we working on next?
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Good on you mate, We have loved chatting with you.
Just before you go. What choice of song and why this?
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Please? I'd love to hear ten guitars. I hope you've
got the ingle bird humperting version we have. This takes
me back to a time of the sixties where the
summers seemed to go on and on. My dad and
then love people like Chubby Checker and all the music,
Tom Jones, Ingle Bird, Sammy Davis Junior and all that
time where they were sort of just a magical time
(12:38):
for me as a boy growing up in the sixties
listening to all the music. I've just come from two
big families, so very grateful and that song kind of
just came out and became our party song too. Well.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
We're going to play it for you, the Engelbert version,
and just to remind that, just a reminder folks. Tim's
latest film is out June twenty seven. It's called carfar
Fyn are getting rave reviews already with advanced screenings. Tim,
all the very best with that and your career and
your life. Mate, Thank you for your time.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Thank you again, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
James tell you with the Morrison and this is his
song ten Guitars and News Talk zed B.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Dance Dance, Dance to Guitar very soon, you know.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Just twelve For more from Simon Barnett and James Daniels afternoons,
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