Island Spirit

Actor Martin Henderson — who stars in the latest series from Grey’s Anatomy creator Shonda Rhimes, Off the Map — talks to Metro Canada about working in Hawaii, keeping his accent and arguing for more wardrobe. “Hawaii offers for me a very unique balance between what I’m used to in New Zealand,” Henderson said. “It’s America, but with the Hawaiian culture and Hawaiian people, very similar to the Maori, and there’s a lot of their sensibility and their spirit. I feel very at home there instantly.” About his accent, he said: “I pretty much talk in the show how I do in real life, which is quite American. In New Zealand, people think I’ve got an American accent, and in America, people think I’ve got a New Zealand accent, so it’s kind of a bit of both.” In Off the Map, which is set in a remote South American village, Henderson plays Dr Ben Keeton.