“Like, you’ve gotta know there’s a consequence to actions,” he says. The main thing for Hapi when he was working with troubled youth in real life was to get young men to open up about what they’re really feeling, although not necessarily in a touchy-feely way. “Buster has a real talent for drawing these kids out.” “The justice system has decided there’s nothing can do with these kids, we’re just gonna lock ‘em up. “I’ve worked a lot of years with kids that are exactly in that category”, he says. That might be because the role is very close to Hapi’s own past as a youth worker. The crime at the centre of the show rolls off both character and actor like water off a duck’s back. Whenever Hapi is onscreen, you feel like you’re watching something real, something that gets beneath the prestige gloss of the show. He isn’t quite the heart of The Gone, but he’s the undertow, along with his wife Wiki (played with gusto by Vanessa Rare). Buster is the de facto carer for the youth of the town who have found themselves cut off from family or government support. Those moments are often when Buster, played by Wayne Hapi, steps on screen. There are a few scenes, and more than a few moments, where The Gone raises its head above the parapet and turns into something quite special, or something weightier. The series wears its sombre tone like a veil, the detectives have their own interpersonal and internal struggles, and things in this small town are, of course, not always as they seem. Detectives Theo Richter (the very Irish Richard Flood) and Diana Huia (Acushla-Tara Kupe) team up to find a young Irish couple who have vanished from a small town in the North Island. On the surface, The Gone looks like yet another cop show, albeit one with an Irish twist. One of the stars of New Zealand’s latest police drama tells Sam Brooks how he drew on personal experience for his role, and about connecting with his Irish castmates on set.
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