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Gay pirate groupie. Language nerd. Shower singer. Late 30s. Latam
Gay pirate groupie. Language nerd. Shower singer. Late 30s. Latam
![HIS FLAG MEANS JOY!
Werewolf, lizard man, mermaid, gay pirate... Our Flag Means Death has earned Rhys Darby a devoted following. Now he's headed back to the stage for a stand-up tour.
DNA: You have a very impressive list of credits: Flight Of The Conchords, Star Trek:
Strange New Worlds, Night Court, The X-Files, Hot In Cleveland, Modern Family, How I Met Your Mother, Jumanji... Does one experience stand out?
Rhys Darby: Luckily, and weirdly, at the beginning of my career, I got to work with Jim Carrey in Yes Man. It was the first movie lever did and, being into comedy, he was an inspiration to me. Working with the best straightaway throws you in the deep end, and I was like, "Wow! I can take on anything now".
The next movie I did was The Boat That Rocked starring Philip Seymour Hoffman. I worked with amazing craftspeople right from those early days. Believe me, I'm still pinching myself.
I wonder how that little boy from Pakuranga, New Zealand gets to do this! It feels like I've won some sort of competition.
"It wasn't like, this guy's gay or this person is non-binary. They just were, and no one cared."
You've even been in The Simpsons.
Yes! I do know I've got the voice and a weird vibe about me that's fun for cartoons. One role that stands out would be The X-Files. Being into the paranormal myself, I couldn't believe I got a part on that show. It was so perfect playing a lizard who becomes human. It felt like it was written for me.
You also played a werewolf in What We Do In The Shadows - that's a werewolf, not a
"swear-wolf"!
[Laughs] That was fun. I do a lot of work with Taika Waititi, who's a friend of mine. He and Jemaine Clement wrote, directed and starred in that film, which was all improvised. There was a script, but we weren't allowed to look at it. For that "swear wolf" scene, we were told we were the werewolf gang, the others were the vampire gang, and we were going to meet in the middle,](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zrcku3sm4e6zznsjh7r22quv/bafkreidcnca7x6y4paldrpuou7jajxoy2bgoq24sjy3gaieg7by4ijpxqm)
