Kiwi actors Josh McKenzie and Luke Patrick have scored gritty new Hollywood roles. Two former Shortland Street stars , Luke Patrick and Josh McKenzie, have scored fantastic new dramatic roles in the US. Patrick, 38, who played Frank Warner on the iconic soap for five years, has just come off filming a movie in Adelaide with Entourage star Jeremy Piven .
“Jeremy was the nicest, most funny kind-hearted actor to work with,” Patrick tells Spy. The pair are starring in the thriller Numbered Lives , a movie set in a mysterious facility, where the medical research is dark. “It’s almost like a prison,” says Patrick.
“My character Lukas has a split personality built up from childhood trauma. He’s the warden’s second in charge, he explains, “and sees him more of a father figure in a world where patients are treated like lab rats to meet the clinic’s corporate demands.” Patrick says Piven plays the head of the corporation and the pair have a climactic confrontation scene, and Patrick is pretty chuffed with the results.
Since leaving Shorty , Patrick has enjoyed time with his family in South Australia, being an acting coach, as well as working and spending time in Sydney and in the US. Patrick is excited to be coming back to New Zealand at the end of winter to live; an older, wiser and more spiritually aware Patrick will return with the intention of acting, coaching and hosting radio, as well as getting amongst the action in the many New Zealand productions on the b.
