By Tova O'Brien
Kiwi movie-maker Peter Jackson has been knighted for his services to film.
And while Sir Peter wasn't willing to appear on camera to discuss his knighthood, 3 News did however find a plumber from Kapiti Coast who shares the same name.
"We're not mistaken in the looks department," laughs Peter Jackson the plumber. "But certainly my clients love to think that maybe Peter Jackson's going to turn up."
With Peter Jackson the filmmaker off on a well-deserved holiday, he was only able to supply a written statement about his forthcoming knighthood.
"This is an incredible moment in my life," Sir Peter's statement reads. "I didn't think anything would surpass the 2004 Academy Awards, but I was wrong. The feeling of gratitude and pride I have in accepting this honour from my home country is profound."
In his statement, Sir Peter recalls his humble beginnings as a filmmaker on the Kapiti Coast.
"When I was growing up in Pukerua Bay, I spent weekends shooting war movies in my parents' vegetable garden with their Super 8 camera," he says. " I was eight-years-old and had no real expectation of being a film director."
Throughout high school, Sir Peter toyed with stop-motion film. And while his teachers say he was not an outstanding student, Sir Peter is rumoured to have achieved 100 percent in school certificate mathematics.
And some believe that Sir Peter deserves one more honour. Residents of the street he grew up in, Haunui Way, say it should be renamed to "Jackson Way".
3 News