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HENSHIN! MAGAZINE (usa)
BELOW IS AN EXCERPT FROM THE INTERVIEW WITH HENSHIN! MAGAZINE FOR 'GODZILLA: FINAL WARS'. TO LOCATE THE FULL INTERVIEW WITH PHOTOGRAPHS PLEASE GO TO http://www.henshinonline.com/archive.html
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...
What begins as a scene out of any number of action movies takes a sudden turn with the arrival of Rodan, the Flying Monster, to NYC... signaling the start of a worldwide assault by more than a half-dozen Toho kaiju in GODZILLA FINAL WARS. For Godzilla's 50th anniversary film, executive producer 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...
HENSHIN!: Thankyou 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 background?
MICK PRESTON: I was born in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, and then moved to Melbourne, Australia, at the age of one. After that I moved to the US where I lived for eleven years; I lived 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 197 different types of careers. 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 (see that episode of SEINFELD where Kramer does the same thing). I also went to college and got myself a teaching degree. At some point I fell in love with traveling. I've been to about 37 countries and 6 continents so far...
G-FAN MAGAZINE (CANADA)
Below is an excerpt of an interview with G-FAN Magazine. For the full interview please go to http://www.g-fan.com/html/gfan_index/index_72.php
G-FAN: Were there any language problems? Did they have a translator on set?
MICK PRESTON: For the Sydney portion of the shoot, where Ryuhei was directing, there were no language problems. But for the Tokyo sequences I had a personal assistant and translator who was with me both off and on set. She would help off set in communicating with the producers and various other behind-the-scenes people. And then on set she would translate the international director, Ryuichi Takatsu's, directions. He would direct me as best he could in English, but if he got stuck, he would rely on the interpreter to translate. Same thing with the stunt sequences. The stunt coordinator would demonstrate the moves, and then the translator would explain them in English...
WWE MAGAZINE (USA)
- Interview coming soon (Cord in 'From Parts Unknown' Feature film)...
INSIDE FILM MAGAZINE - 3 articles on 'The Playbook' Feature film
http://if.com.au/2014/09/11/article/UXHNWVNOCN.html
http://if.com.au/2014/02/19/article/Australian-drama-lands-US-deal/VQZHHTNNAD.html
http://if.com.au/2013/07/11/article/Inspirational-film-The-Playbook-makes-an-impression-in-limited-release/AFZYTFQMIM
ALSO VARIOUS ARTICLES IN THE SENTINEL TIMES AND THE PHILLIP ISLAND ADVERTISER
'WAR OF THE WORLDS'
'WAR OF THE WORLDS WOWS 'EM': WESTERNPORT NEWS https://issuu.com/westernportnews/docs/wpn_nov27th_2012
TRINITY COLLEGE LONDON INTERVIEW
Please click on the link to read the following interview on acting for Trinity College, London.
BOOKS
"THE ACTOR'S HANDBOOK: A GUIDE TO THE AUSTRALIAN ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY" By Marnie Hill. Featuring Interview with Mick Preston. For details please go to https://books.google.com.au/books/about/The_Actors_Handbook.html?id=LKEFaLWj4wAC
"ACTING AND LIVING IN DISCOVERY'' by Carol Rosenfeld, New York acting teacher and head of the Hagen Institute. I was part of a workshop involving critiquing/acting on concepts in the book.. For details please go to
https://www.amazon.com/Acting-Living-Discovery-Workbook-Actor/dp/1585107034
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...
What begins as a scene out of any number of action movies takes a sudden turn with the arrival of Rodan, the Flying Monster, to NYC... signaling the start of a worldwide assault by more than a half-dozen Toho kaiju in GODZILLA FINAL WARS. For Godzilla's 50th anniversary film, executive producer 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...
HENSHIN!: Thankyou 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 background?
MICK PRESTON: I was born in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, and then moved to Melbourne, Australia, at the age of one. After that I moved to the US where I lived for eleven years; I lived 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 197 different types of careers. 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 (see that episode of SEINFELD where Kramer does the same thing). I also went to college and got myself a teaching degree. At some point I fell in love with traveling. I've been to about 37 countries and 6 continents so far...
G-FAN MAGAZINE (CANADA)
Below is an excerpt of an interview with G-FAN Magazine. For the full interview please go to http://www.g-fan.com/html/gfan_index/index_72.php
G-FAN: Were there any language problems? Did they have a translator on set?
MICK PRESTON: For the Sydney portion of the shoot, where Ryuhei was directing, there were no language problems. But for the Tokyo sequences I had a personal assistant and translator who was with me both off and on set. She would help off set in communicating with the producers and various other behind-the-scenes people. And then on set she would translate the international director, Ryuichi Takatsu's, directions. He would direct me as best he could in English, but if he got stuck, he would rely on the interpreter to translate. Same thing with the stunt sequences. The stunt coordinator would demonstrate the moves, and then the translator would explain them in English...
WWE MAGAZINE (USA)
- Interview coming soon (Cord in 'From Parts Unknown' Feature film)...
INSIDE FILM MAGAZINE - 3 articles on 'The Playbook' Feature film
http://if.com.au/2014/09/11/article/UXHNWVNOCN.html
http://if.com.au/2014/02/19/article/Australian-drama-lands-US-deal/VQZHHTNNAD.html
http://if.com.au/2013/07/11/article/Inspirational-film-The-Playbook-makes-an-impression-in-limited-release/AFZYTFQMIM
ALSO VARIOUS ARTICLES IN THE SENTINEL TIMES AND THE PHILLIP ISLAND ADVERTISER
'WAR OF THE WORLDS'
'WAR OF THE WORLDS WOWS 'EM': WESTERNPORT NEWS https://issuu.com/westernportnews/docs/wpn_nov27th_2012
TRINITY COLLEGE LONDON INTERVIEW
Please click on the link to read the following interview on acting for Trinity College, London.
BOOKS
"THE ACTOR'S HANDBOOK: A GUIDE TO THE AUSTRALIAN ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY" By Marnie Hill. Featuring Interview with Mick Preston. For details please go to https://books.google.com.au/books/about/The_Actors_Handbook.html?id=LKEFaLWj4wAC
"ACTING AND LIVING IN DISCOVERY'' by Carol Rosenfeld, New York acting teacher and head of the Hagen Institute. I was part of a workshop involving critiquing/acting on concepts in the book.. For details please go to
https://www.amazon.com/Acting-Living-Discovery-Workbook-Actor/dp/1585107034