A low budget Kiwi TV show landed a cameo from Oscar-winning actress Emma Thompson just by asking the question. Mark Mitchinson has been been asked the same thing a lot lately: how did his low budget web series land a cameo from an Oscar winner? The Kiwi actor says Emma Thompson's appearance started with an "innocent" conversation between him and Justin Harwood, the writer and creator of their award-winning show High Road. "I know Greg (Wise), her husband, and he loved the series, so I said, 'Hey, do you want to be in the third series? "When she said yes we said, 'We've gotta go, it's Emma Thompson, we're out'.

Source: New Zealand Herald November 04, 2016 21:00 UTC