"Your latest role is Queen of the Cuttlefish, in The Pout-Pout Fish; if you could be a fish for a day, which one would it be and why? The blue groper at Clovelly beach because it's like an institution, and people go there to see it. I just think it's cool that there's a local fish that people actually go and see and talk about it's a special fish."
"I love this film. When I was growing up, it used to come on the ABC every now and again, and one time I videotaped it. I just thought it was so funny. It's Carole Lombard and Jack Benny. Recently they were playing it at the Ritz [cinema in Randwick] and it turned out that it was also the favourite film of a friend of mine, and so we went and just laughed and laughed and laughed."
"I was doing A Doll's House years ago with Pete [Peter O'Brien] my husband now, but at the time we were not a couple. We were playing opposite each other and on opening night I tripped up I jumped ahead a few lines in the script. I didn't know what I'd done [but] I suddenly realised something wasn't right. I remember looking at him, and he completely saved me in the situation, and then [the scene] took off again and went really, really well."
The blue groper at Clovelly Beach is valued as a local institution that people go to see and talk about. The 1942 Ernst Lubitsch film To Be Or Not To Be is a favourite, featuring Carole Lombard and Jack Benny and eliciting repeated laughter; a later Mel Brooks remake was unsuccessful while the original remains a brilliant comedy. During a production of A Doll's House, a co-actor saved a missed cue, demonstrating the importance of trusting colleagues, looking to fellow performers to find one's place, treating stage work as communal, and keeping a sense of fun so mistakes can spark new direction.
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