New Zealand Hollywood actor Cliff Curtis has been charged with driving under the influence after a car crash on Auckland’s waterfront.<\/p>\n
“I am deeply saddened by this incident. My thoughts are with those who were hurt, and their families at this time,” he said.<\/p>\n
Police have confirmed a 58-year-old man has been summonsed for reckless driving and driving with excess blood alcohol.<\/p>\n
He will appear in Auckland District Court later this month.<\/p>\n
Curtis was in the media earlier this year after he, fellow actor Jason Momoa, and director Taika Waititi, acquired the Auckland-based film studio Studio West in a bid to bring more jobs and Polynesian-led storytelling to the country.<\/p>\n
The studio, set up in 1997, was previously owned and operated by Enki Enterprises’ Kay and Glenn Howe, who say they’re excited to pass the baton to \u0100riki Group – a group invested in the growth of the industry.<\/p>\n
Curtis has appeared in a number of movies both locally and overseas including Once Were Warriors and more recently James Cameron’s Avatar franchise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand Hollywood actor Cliff Curtis has been charged with driving under the influence after a car crash…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-625389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}