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Richard Te Are is a Māori actor and voice actor based in Auckland. He has appeared in films such as The Other Side of Heaven 2 and Danger Close, and TV shows such as The Luminaries and Ahikāroa.
Jun 29, 2020 · In the first episode of The Luminaries, Te Rau Tauwhare (played by Richard Te Are), a greenstone hunter, watches on as the body of his close friend is treated with clinical disregard by...
- Where Was The Luminaries Filmed?
- How Did They Film Dunedin?
- Is The House of Many Wishes A Real place?
- Where Did They Film The Beach Scenes?
- How Did They Film The Godspeed?
- Where Was Hokitika Filmed? and Crosbie's Cottage?
- Did They Film on Maori Land?
The Luminaries was filmed in New Zealand. But while the story itself is set on the South Island by the coast in Dunedin and Hokitika, the vast majority of the TV drama was actually filmed on New Zealand's North Island around the city of Auckland – on beaches, on farmland, and even in a muddy parking lot. The team did investigate whether they could ...
You certainly wouldn't guess from looking, but Dunedin was constructed in the car park of a tire factory in Auckland. "We built the main street of Dunedin and a network of shops which were all useable, and were quite incredible," McCarthy said. "We really took a lot of inspiration from historical photographs, we collected thousands of images that w...
No! But McCarthy and her team did find an "incredible high-gothic hybrid Victorian building" in Dunedin which they used for inspiration for the House of Many Wishes where Lydia Wells runs her gentlemen's parlour / gambling house / possible brothel. "It had one sole female tenant, and the building, they'd tried to set fire to it several times," she ...
Several times throughout the story, we see our characters by the sea: walking on vast beaches, perching on driftwood, making perilous landings, or picking over shipwrecks. These scenes were actually filmed at Piha beach in Auckland, a 45 minute drive from the city. "The beaches in Auckland are wild," McCarthy said. "And there's something hopefully ...
The Godspeed is a ship which belongs originally to Alistair Lauderback, and it's central to the story. But the team ended up having to take down the Dunedin set in that tire factory car park – so they could build the Godspeed there instead. "The tricky thing for us too is that there was no heritage marine fleet in New Zealand that we could utilise,...
The second key location for The Luminaries was Jonkers Farm, which describes itself as "540 acres of isolated paradise" 45 minutes outside of Auckland. Here, the production team built 1860s Hokitika from scratch, from the settlement to Chinatown to the goldfields. They also built the cottage where Crosbie Wells (Ewen Leslie) lives. "The set in Hoki...
"There are two pieces that we did shoot on location," McCarthy revealed. The first location was the beaches – and the second was around Hokitika: "We were really, really committed to wanting to shoot in Ngāti Waewae, which is where Te Rau's character comes from." The character Te Rau Tauwhare (Richard Te Are) is a greenstone hunter who befriends bo...
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Aug 15, 2022 · A crucial exception occurs when, after starting a family with her first husband Richard (Richard Te Are), she falls for William (Vinnie Bennett), a land consolidation officer blindsided by her...
Richard Te Are is an actor, director, and theatre deviser from New Zealand. He is a graduate of Toi Whakaari New Zealand Drama School. Since graduating in 2017, Richard has gone on to play various roles, notably his portrayal of Teina Pora in In Dark Places.
