Almost two
weeks on from a horror crash actor James Rolleston remains in a stable
condition in Waikato Hospital's intensive care unit.
And those
close to the actor said it was "a waiting game" to see how well he
would recover.
"He's
still pretty crook," Opotiki counsellor Barry Howe told the Herald on
Sunday.
"It's
just a matter of waiting now."
Two of
Howe's grandsons were close friends with the young star and had gone to visit
him last week.
Rolleston,
19, was seriously injured when the car he was travelling in hit the Otara
Bridge on the eastern side of Opotiki on July 26.
He was cut
from his car and taken to Tauranga Hospital in a serious condition before being
transferred to Waikato Hospital.
Police
investigations into the cause of the crash were ongoing, a police spokeswoman
said.
Another
young man, who Howe previously described as being "best of buddies"
with Rolleston was also hurt in the crash, however not seriously.
It was not
yet confirmed who had been driving.
Rolleston's
breakout performance in Taika Waititi's 2010 movie Boy kicked off his career as
an actor.
He also
appeared alongside Cliff Curtis in the widely-acclaimed 2014 movie The Dark
Horse.
Earlier this
week it was revealed a movie based on the Maori love song Pokarekare Ana had
been put on hold after Rolleston's crash.
The actor
was set to be the male lead of the production.
Pokarekare
Ana: Yeon-Ga is set in the midst of the Korean War and centres around the love
story between a troubled Maori soldier and a young South Korean woman.
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