In recent years, Temuera Morrison has spent a lot of his time on screen playing an alien bounty hunter or hanging out with superheroes. In Far North, he’s just an everyman, the still point at the centre of a mad story that actually happened right here on Planet Earth.
“It was beautiful to act without a helmet on my head,” he says. “That can get a bit tedious.”
Morrison, best known to the wider world as Boba Fett, comes out from under the helmet to play “Ed”, opposite Robyn Malcolm as “Heather” – the first time they’ve acted together since they were both on in 1994. Their parts are based on the real-life Northland couple who found themselves caught up in
