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Friday 14 August 2015

How Well Do You Know Temuera Morrison ?

Temuera Derek Morrison MNZM is a New Zealand actor, with roles including the abusive Jake "the Muss" Heke in 1994's Once Were Warriors, and bounty hunter Jango Fett and the Clone Troopers in the Star Wars series.

net worth only $1.5 million

Tem moved from New Zealand to live n Hollywood , and like many actors he is mostly out of work. You're not in Guatemala Now Dr. Ropata !

He should be in more movies . Unfortunately he is under used and gets mostly bit parts.

Trademark : Very angry all the time

Green Lantern

Star Wars

Not sure about New Zealand culture...

Cook me some eggs !

Temuera Morrison Quote :

“Sometimes I think, ‘Oh, I wish I just had a nice job where you’re getting a salary.’ Just sometimes.”

Temuera blames his failure to make himself a lasting career in Hollywood on his own laziness. He could never manage to learn to speak with an American accent, which very much limited his opportunities in US feature films. Temuera says, " just couldn't master it really," he tells the Star-Times, switching to a mock accent: "I thought I could get away with things. I should have learned the American accent; I couldn't be bothered. In the downtime you should be working your craft, that includes your voice."

Temuera says that his reaction to the news that he had won the role of Boba Fett's father in Star Wars Episode II and III was, "Yes! I got Boba, Boba Fett! Yes... who the? Who's Boba?!" He immediately rented and watched Star Wars Episode IV and was very disappointed when Boba wasn't in it, which forced him to rent the next movie.

Temuera laments the fact that he always seems to die in his movies. But he says that dying in a movie is not nearly so bad as filming a number of scenes and having them end up on the cutting room floor, which has happened to him as well.

Temuera: (referring to his days on "Shortland Street") I used to walk around the place on telephone books or I would have telephone books all over the set when I was in a scene with actors taller than me so it happened quite a lot.

Temuera: (on his role as the clone commandos for "Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith")I'm not in it a lot, but there's a lot of me in it.
Temuera: You know Star Wars is the only movie you can be in for two seconds and be famous.