Grant Bowler
Grant Bowler
Grant Bowleris a New Zealand-born Australian actor who has worked in American, Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian film, television, and theatre...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth18 July 1968
CityAuckland, New Zealand
CountryAustralia
focus waste calm
Strangely enough, I find myself more centered in chaos than in calm, and again I'm not sure whether that's a strength or says something weird about me, but I love a crisis. I'm normally very, very organized in the middle of chaos, and then when I have nothing to focus on, extremely disorganized, and I tend to waste a lot of time.
fun guy good-guy
I love playing bad guys; they're always much more fun than the good guy.
jobs firsts three
I never talk about a job before the contract is signed and I've shot the first three days.
guy doe circumstances
I seem to be incapable of playing that guy that always does the right thing, who always responds well in any circumstance.
children kids thinking
I think my children have presented one of the biggest lessons so far in my life. It was only when my kids were born that I realized just how much I'd been living my life worried about what everybody thought of me and, even more strangely, worried about what I imagined other people might be thinking about me.
thinking way fantasy
I think that the way of bringing realism into fantasy is to treat it as the commonplace.
born new-zealand
I was born in New Zealand, so I have a lot of family there.
fans classic sci-fi
I'm a huge fan of classic sci-fi.
moving thinking order
Looking back is a form of insanity, given that I could really never understand what everybody else was thinking. I find these days that I'm much more efficient when I just focus on what I need to do in order to move my family forward and get the focus off me.
heart faint-of-heart
Making a movie with Lindsay Lohan is not for the faint of heart.
character keys laughing
A character, their ability or inability to laugh at themselves should always be a very, very conscious choice. It's a very big key to the nature of a human being.
drama layers way
Comedy has to be so much cleaner than drama. You can't layer it in the way you can a dramatic performance. Which is why it's more difficult than drama - you don't have so many tricks.
thinking play giving
I love motion capture. I think it's the best thing, ever. It's wonderful. It gives you an incredible freedom to just play things out.
cutting boring angle
For my money, if I'm playing anything then it has to have some sharp angles on it. It's got to have some edges that you can cut yourself on, otherwise it's boring.