Kevin
Kevin has been married to Amanda for more than a year, but he’s hardly seeing his friends these days…
Jay Ryan plays Kevin
Jay Ryan brings a wealth of local and international acting experience to the role of Kevin.
Between shooting series three and four of GO GIRLS, Jay headed to Australia and filmed a major guest role in the hit series, Offspring. He also landed a part in Terra Nova, the American science fiction drama series produced by Steven Spielberg. Recently he starred in the Australian made film, Lou, co-starring John Hurt (Elephant Man) and Emily Barclay (In My Father’s Den). He also appeared in the short film, Franswa Sharl.
Jay’s previous television credits include Legend of the Seeker, three series of Sea Patrol and a core cast role in the long-running drama serial Neighbours from 2002 – 2005.
Locally, he has starred in two South Pacific Pictures drama series; Interrogation (2005) and Being Eve (2001).
In 2010, Jay took his one-man play, The Packer, to Sydney and then to the Hollywood Fringe Festival. Jay had been working on the play for 10 years and was thrilled to receive funding from Creative NZ, enabling development of the production and the ability to take it abroad. The Packer drew impressive crowds and rave reviews in both Sydney and Los Angeles.
Q & A with Jay Ryan
Kevin has been married for a year when we meet up with him. How is Kevin feeling at the start of this series?
I think he’s feeling quite isolated and alone. He is almost in a state of anxiety about the mess he’s left behind with the girls and not being there to look after them. He’s also feeling like he has become a completely different person and doesn’t know what happened to the old Kev.
He hasn’t been seeing much of his friends – how has the dynamic shifted when Kevin catches up with them?
He comes back thinking everything is rosy and he’ll feel comforted in the old ways of the girls but everyone has been so far removed in the year that we don’t see on TV that it’s a little bit awkward and takes a lot of adjusting for the characters. Everyone has their own baggage from the last year that no one’s really discussed. They haven’t been as close over that year that we don’t see. It takes a little wrangling to get back to that common thread of the GO GIRLS.
Highlights of shooting series four?
Working with Michael Duignan and Murray Keane – all our new directors were amazing. It was a great spin to freshen up the fourth series. I really liked what the writers brought to episode one and Kevin’s journey by throwing it off kilter and adding in a whole lot of new avenues.