The Convert left its mark on Guy Pearce. No, it wasn’t just from the ache of the horse riding he did in Lee Tamahori’s film about an English preacher caught between fellow settlers and two warring iwi in the Musket Wars of 1830s Aotearoa.
And it wasn’t the bruising sustained in the scenes of internecine violence as his character, Thomas Munro, a former British soldier turned lay preacher, attempts to play peacemaker.
No. As he pulls up his sleeves on the Zoom call, the Australian actor shows the two permanent tattoos he had done