![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Those moments are probably the clearest, I remember my imagination just going into overdrive. My family is very active and we were actually hiking through New Zealand for about four weeks when the movie came out so we were in the same landscapes, camping and exploring. As I got older I really started to enjoy fantasies, I think I was around fourteen or fifteen when Lord of the Rings came out. I didn’t really have any interest in cinema or acting until I was out of school. I must have watched the first in the trilogy a thousand times as a kid, it was that point when my imagination just exploded. For Webber, who grew up riding horses, hiking across scenic New Zealand landscapes, and as a competitive gymnast, the Wild West life was a natural progression – although he’d prefer Middle-earth.Įlla Joyce: In the formative years of your career were there any films or actors in particular that sparked your interest in cinema?ĭaniel Webber: I didn’t want to be an actor, I didn’t even understand this was a job at that point, but I was captivated by Star Wars. His latest role sees him take on gang leader of the Old West Jesse Evans in Michael Hirst’s latest period drama Billy the Kid, chronicling the life of the frontier outlaw from his youth up until his notorious reputation got the better of him aged just twenty-one. In Webber’s own words, it’s a repertoire that’s offered a “banquet of opportunities… I would never have anticipated it Then came another – albeit very different – real person role: Mötley Crüe’s wild frontman Vince Neil in Jeff Tremaine’s The Dirt, followed by a star turn alongside Daniel Radcliffe in Escape from Pretoria. Australian actor Daniel Webber’s first major role was playing Lee Harvey Oswald in a mini-series adaptation of Stephen King’s 11.23.66, which sees a time traveller attempt to stop the assassination of John F. ![]()
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