Cliff Curtis
Cliff Curtis Trivia
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Trivia
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Cliff filmed his part as Pablo Escobar in the film Blow in just three days.
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At the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, Miramax Films bought U.S. distribution rights to Cliff's first feature film Eagle vs. Shark.
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Cliff co-produced the short film "Two Cars, One Night" which received an Academy Award nomination in 2005.
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In 2004, Cliff, with producer Ainsley Gardiner, formed the independent film production company Whenua Films.
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During production of River Queen, Cliff crashed his car into a house while answering a cellphone text message. He escaped with only minor injuries.
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Cliff enrolled at the New Zealand Drama School and then the Teatro Dmitri Scoula in Switzerland.
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Cliff has eight siblings.
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Cliff starred in two separate films entitled "Fracture" and played a detective in both.
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Although Cliff is of Maori descent, he has only played a Maori in a couple of movies. He has been cast as many other dark-skinned nationalities having played, among others, Mexican-Americans, Colombians and Arabs.
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Cliff is 6'0½" (1.84 m).
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Quotes
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Cliff: Maybe when I'm in my 70s, I'll get a Ph.D. and become an economist philosopher.
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Cliff: (On his role in Runaway Jury) That's my foot over there next to Dustin Hoffman as he walks past and talks to Gene Hackman.
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Cliff: If you're a Maori actor and someone comes to you with a part in the adaptation of The Whale Rider, mate, you go.
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Cliff (on Whale Rider): I've been waiting for this film for a long time. It's fun to go off and put on a disguise and pretend to be someone else, but to be able to get back to myself and my culture, that was just more than really nice, y'know - it was vital.
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Cliff: It would be my ideal world if I could do two movies like that [Whale Rider and Spooked] a year here - and finally get a job with Peter Jackson, but not playing an orc necessarily. If I could do that, I would be a very happy man.
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Cliff: I'm not a celebrity. I don't have a public following; people don't go to see Cliff Curtis movies.
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Cliff: I put a thing out to my agent saying, 'Let's try a year where I don't play a terrorist or drug dealer, where I don't kill anybody, and see what happens'.
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