Michael Glavin looks back on his years as
Shortland Street’s Doctor Love, Chris Warner.
I remember the first scene I shot, we shot in the studio. It was a converted warehouse and we couldn’t shoot if it was raining too hard because of the tin roof. And then, at the end of the scene, they had to check the tapes for what they called drop-outs because we were using second-hand videotapes. That’s how on the fly everything was.
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Michael Galvin . fainted on set when he returned to the show.
I was absolutely terrified before shooting the first scene. It was Chris and Michael McKenna (Paul Gittins). He was telling me off and I was absolutely terrified. I thought if I can just do the first scene, I’ll be OK for the rest of them. Everyone was watching each other’s first scene to see if they were going to mess them up, and I didn’t, thank God. Paul Gittins got me through it. He was terrific and a lot more experienced than me. I was just so relieved that I’d done it.