“Bill is inclined to call a spade a shovel and to keep his own counsel. Joel brings just the right mix of rough and ready kindness to a character who is more perceptive than he looks” says Preston.

Tobeck is a well-known New Zealand actor whose feature film credits include Nicki Caro’s Memory and Desire and Harry Sinclair’s Topless Women Talk About Their Lives which won him a New Zealand Film Award for Best Actor. Prior to Perfect Strangers he had just completed filming the UK family feature The Water Giant, directed by John Henderson.

Television credits include the cult series Xena: Warrior Princess, Hercules, Lawless, Cleopatra 2525 and Shortland Street.

Tobeck is currently being directed by Sam Neill in the Melbourne tele-movie The Brush Off starring David Wenham.