Bret McKenzie on fame and his new film

The Flight of the Conchords star spills the beans on the price of fame and his new Kiwi film.

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22nd September, 2012

It may just be show business as usual for him these days. But here on Planet Earth, it’s distinctly surreal to find yourself, of a winter’s evening, listening to an Oscar-winning Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit speak Elvish down the phone. “That’s the only one I can remember,” says Bret McKenzie, of his lines from Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit. “The other one just sounds like gibberish.” Actually, it all sounds like gibberish – exquisitely murmured gibberish, it must be said. But then, for the reedier member of New Zealand’s now, surely, most popular folk ...

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