Flight of the Conchords star Bret McKenzie told an audience at the Sundance Film Festival it was his body that got him his role in Austenland.
"Yes, I was hired for my body," the comedian and actor said after the film's world premiere in Park City, Utah.
The funnyman stars as Martin, a love interest for lead Keri Russell.
Based on a novel by Shannon Hale, Austenland stars Russell as a single 31-year-old woman, Jane Hayes, with an unhealthy obsession with Jane Austen.
Jane pays to go to Austenland, a fantasy place Hale invented in her novel, where she encounters different customers and storylines in her search for Mr Right.
