Dave Letele

And then, of course, the big break was Brokenhearted, which was a sequel to Once Warriors.

Yeah.

Oh, it was out the gate, bro.

It was out the gate.

I felt like a movie star.

Yeah.

You know, and it was really cool because a lot of the scenes were with Timura Morrison.

Bro, that was out the gate.

It was out the gate.

We'd just turn up for rehearsals, bro.

And like, I'd just turn up in like, you know, in a big wool jeans, old black jeans.

And, you know, you remember the old woolly jerseys with the patches on the thing?

You know, because I used to love wearing those sorts of jerseys and stuff anyway.

And I just turned up in one of those and he was like looking at me, he goes, yeah, yeah.

where's the wardrobe lady?

These boys already look like they know what they're doing.

And a good friend of mine who I'd studied with at North Tech in Whangarei, he got the role of Sonny, which was my mate Clint Teruera.

And so we got to do the roles together, which was kind of, he played the more of a lead role and I played his sidekick, which became my kind of thing, which was playing that kind of sidekick role and support leads.

Oh, he was awesome, bro.

He was awesome.