Antonia Prebble has basically grown up on our TV screens, and she's looking back on a major milestone this week.
This Saturday marks the 20th anniversary of the first episode of Outrageous Fortune, and Prebble's been reflecting on all the memories that came out of that shows.
She says she felt like she grew up within her role on Outrageous Fortune - and the experience 'changed her life."
"If I'd have known from that first day on set in 2005 playing Loretta that I would be a member of the West family for the next 12 years and that I would meet my husband as part of this kind of universe - I would have told you it wasn't happening."
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudkin
from News Talks, edb.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Right and Tonia Prepple has basically grown up on our
TV screens. She was a childhood actress and host of
after school show WNTV, but it was twenty years ago
this week that I think she really hit the big
time incredibly. This week marks the twentieth anniversary of the
first episode of Outrageous Fortune, We all fell in Love
with the Wests and Antonia as the young Loretta. Antonia
(00:35):
has also got some exciting personal projects on the go,
including new episodes of her podcast What Matters Most and
Tonia Prepple, Good morning.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Good morning, Oh so nice to talk to you. Thank
you for that lovely introduction.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Can you believe it's twenty years this Saturday since we
met the Wests.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I cannot believe it.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
One of the things that is most kind of wild
and hard to compute in my brain is that I
was twenty when I started the pilot gym and I
have turned forty one, so it was literally half my
life ago, and that is just so wild to me
to think that I had as many years of life
(01:15):
pre doing Outrageous Fortune, as I have post doing out
Ragius fort Tune is just crazy because of you know,
the first twent years of my life feel like they
were interminable, you know, the growing up time, and then the.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Last two years feel like they've raced by.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
So the fact that they're the same length of time
just makes me feel really weird.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
No, I get that. What did the show do for you?
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Oh gosh, it just changed my life in so many ways,
both professionally and personally. Like as you mentioned in your
lovely introduction, I had been acting a bit before that,
but I was mainly doing children's TV shows, So this
was my first adult show, and because it went for
(01:57):
so long, it actually kind of saw me through that
potentially difficult transition from child to grown up actor. You
know a lot of actors who start really young, they
just kind of get caught in this in between stage
because everyone just thinks of them as a child actor
even though they're now twenty six or something. But I
was on Outrageous from when I was twenty to twenty six,
so I came out of that show like grown up
(02:20):
ack jarin. People kind of accepted me as that, so
I never had that problem. And then of course when
west Side was written the prequel to Outrageous Fortune, which
I subsequently did for another six years, and I got
together with my husband on that show. We had our
first baby. You know, now we have two kids.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
So it just changed my life so much.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
But yeah, if I had known that from that first
day on set in two thousand and five playing Leretta,
that I would be a member of the west.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Family for the next twelve years and.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
That I would meet my husband as part of this
kind of universe, yeah, I mean, I would have told you.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
You've got to appreciate that opportunity, right, I mean, you know,
a show that comes along, well, two shows that come
along that are so loved in, things that are able
to keep you employed for such a period of time,
and there's always so much happening in them, and I'm
sure they kept you very stimulated as an actor as well.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
You're absolutely right.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
And I think also, you know, because times in terms
of the industry have changed a lot as well, So
in a way, it was sort of the golden age
of to be part of a show like that, because
like unheard of things happened. For example, we were given
funding for our next season before we'd even finished the
current one, and that is just unheard of.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
And I imagine even now, even if.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
A show was doing well, just because if the kind
of financial structures have changed, that would never happen.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
And so we were, you know, an acting.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Life as a precarious one at best, but we had
these few years of literally knowing what our next job
was going to be because we knew that the show
was just going to continue. And also back in those days,
it was really common to have many many episodes of
a season. So for example, in season one we started
with thirteen episodes, and by season four, I think we
(04:06):
were to like twenty two, and that just doesn't happen now.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Like if we think of all the.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Limited series that we no ande like, they're usually like six, eight,
maybe ten. So just to have this the size of job,
this number of episodes was such a gift because, as
you say, we just got to keep doing it and
playing these characters who had got themselves into extraordinary situations.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
So yeah, it was really stimulating.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
So then what's that like for you when that all ends?
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Yeah, and it really did kind of really end, because
the final season of West Side was over. Our COVID lockdouts,
you know, which well, you know, we started before that
six week first lockdown, and then we finished it after that,
and then of course we had the big lockdown in
Auckland after that. So it really did feel like it
(04:56):
the door really slammed shut because after that, you know,
the film industry was in quite a difficult time that
it's still really recovering from. So work definitely slowed down
quite sognificantly. Personally, I feel quite insulated from that because
I was having my children at the same time, so
it was it felt like a really natural time for
(05:17):
me to be stepping back a bit from professional commitments
and focusing on my kids and on domestic life for
a few years.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
So yeah, I was okay, but.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
I know some of the other my other cast members
did find it really difficult. And there's this thing in
the industry called the post show blues, and that's when
you finish this really intense time and then it all
stops that you can, you know, feel a bit down
and a bit sort of like, oh what do I
do with myself now? I've been used to getting up
at five am and working for twelve hours for.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
The last six months, but for me.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
I was still getting up at five, I think, dealing
with little children, so.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
It was not so bad for me.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
It was good timing. And look, timing is quite important
in this industry, you know, sort of being in the
right place at the right time, you know, can play
a part.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Oh, it really can.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
And I mean the funny thing about this industry is
that it's all about creation, right, So you literally don't
know what your next job is because that job hasn't
been created yet, And it's just this amazing synergy that
can happen sometimes when like, for example, Loretta, I was
twenty years old playing a fifteen year old in that
(06:27):
and you know, I think everyone you know, if they've
seen me on TV interviews or whatever, would see that
I'm quite different from Laretta, but there was some kind
of synergy with that character. Like because I actually first,
funnily enough audition for Pascal, and I did a terrible audition.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
I was really not good at Pascal.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
But then I got given the audition for Loretta, and
I just read this scene and I was like, I
know who this person is.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
I just know how to do it.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
And I only did one audition, which again is pretty
unheard of you usually do at least two or three,
and then they gave me their part, and so it
was like exactly like you say, there was just some
kind of kissmet or magic in that timing that I
was right for it or she was right for me
at that time. But yeah, if it was a year
before or after, then who knows.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Maybe not So considering how things are today and things,
does this drive you to create your own characters in
your own work?
Speaker 3 (07:20):
It does?
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Actually, Yeah, lockdown again for me was a really interesting
time to use that much overused word pivot and think
about other opportunities because you know, at that stage, we
really didn't know what the future was going to be
and if you know, international travel was ever going to
be possible again, and so I think we were all
grappling with the possibility that our lives, or our professional lives,
(07:45):
might be quite a lot smaller, perhaps purely limited to
New Zealand or maybe Australasia. So yeah, So my husband
Dan is a writer, so which is very handy for me.
So we did start developing our own projects over COVID
and we've continued to do that. None of them have
actually happened yet, but a few were close to happening.
But I find that really really interesting and stimulating, and
(08:09):
I'm learning a lot, so it feels like a great
direction to go in, or you know, to add a
few strings to my bow. And then the other thing
I did in Lockdown, as you mentioned in your introduction,
was yeah, create a podcast, and that has been really
great because I'm able to work that around little children commitments.
It's a lot less time to make a podcast than
(08:29):
a TV show.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Oh absolutely. And you do the podcast with your good
friend Jackie MacGuire. It's called What Matters Most. It's back
this Friday. What did the two of you hope to
get out of the podcast when you create?
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Yeah, so it's such a special project for us. So
Jackie and I we did for the first year of
your baby's lives. You can do this course at play
Center called Space and it's for new moms and new babies.
And Jackie and I were in the Space, the same
Space group. So you know, we've had a really long,
long friendship with each other in a really formative one
(09:03):
over those you know, early difficult years with babies. And
then i'd actually had originally had a podcast of my
own and Jackie as a clinical psychologist, had hurt her
own one, but we had the same producer, and it
was actually our producer's idea. Knowing that we were friends
and both having podcasts, who said, why don't we.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Kind of stated the obvious almost.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Yeah exactly, and we were like, oh, yeah, that's a
way better idea than the ones we're doing. So yeah,
we got together and yeah, this is our fourth season
coming up on Friday, And what we really wanted is
to have it feel like everyone listening is kind of
like having a cup of tea with us, if that
makes sense. So we wanted like a really kind of open, casual,
(09:45):
intimate feeling to really kind of celebrate the friendship that
we have as well. So it's not like a like
Jackie's a clinical psychologist, but we wanted these conversations to
be anything but clinical, and it's really to give information
to people listening that it's kind of like the therapy
that we all need in our everyday lives.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
So we're talking about like in this.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Upcoming season, for example, it's a but we talk about
things like perfectionism or why we have a need to
control things, or how to set boundaries and why that
might be difficult or how to cope with the reality
that you might not be exactly where you thought you
would be in your life at this particular moment.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
So it's those kind.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Of everyday issues that we talk about. And Jackie, she
just has such a gift at taking quite complex psychological
topics and explaining them in ways that we can understand.
So I sort of take the role of the listener.
You know, I'm I'm picking her brain and her expertise,
and I mean, I feel like I'm the luckiest person
(10:49):
in the world.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Was just getting free therapy and you.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Know, well, my friend and get free free therapy.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
It all sounds so relevant. Can I ask you, are
you where you thought you would be at this point
in your life?
Speaker 3 (11:03):
It's such a good question.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
And I was actually that not where I thought I
would be topic was one that I suggested we do
because for me, So I turned forty last year and
I don't know if you can relate to this, but
me and my peers, you know, who are all around
that forty mark. It feels like when you approach a
significant milestone birthday, it is the time when you reflect
(11:27):
on your life and you go, okay, I've had those
particular goals and dreams, and I really thought that they'd
be happening right by now. Because for me, again, I
really feel like when I turned forty, I couldn't deny.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
The fact that I was now a grown up and.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
My life was actually happening now, you know, like it
wasn't this thing in the future or I was like
building up to my real life, Like it really is
happening now. So if things aren't being realized, really, now's
the time to kind of take a long look at that.
And so, yeah, in some ways, I'm so happy with
where things are in my life, but absolutely in other areas,
(12:03):
I'm not where I thought I would be. I don't like,
for example, I'm so incredibly grateful for the career I have,
but I think when I was younger, I assumed that
perhaps by now i'd be working more internationally, and so
that is something to kind of, you know, grapple with.
And yeah, Jackie gives some really really and I think
(12:25):
it's a really common thing, like a lot of my
friends feeling the same way, and whether that's professionally, personally,
if they're married or not have children or not, you know,
all those big life expectations that we might have for ourselves,
and of course things always go in a different way,
and it's how can we kind of have compassion for
ourselves and enjoy where we are, even if it's not
exactly where we thought we would be.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Oh, I'm absolutely going to be listening very quickly. Though
you are working on an international production at the moment.
I don't know if you can tell us much about it.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Yes, yeah, I think I can tell you what it is.
It's cool.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Well, look I'm just gonna that's great. It's called ms
X and it's a show for TV three. It's like
a black comedy or comedy drama. And it's starring Melissa George.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Do you know, yes Australian.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yes, yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
I mean I have loved her since Home and Away
playing Angel Iconic, so I've really loved working with her.
Deno Gorman's also and it's Simone Kessel and yeah, it's
really fun. I probably can't say too much about my
character other than she is an absolute delight, very different
from anything I've played before, the opposite of like a
(13:33):
Loretta and Rita. But I've just had the most fun.
She's quite she's quite ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
In some ways. So I'm really looking forward to people
meeting her.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Oh I love it. Hey, Antonia, really nice to talk
to you. Thank you so much for your time today.
Really appreciate it. What matters most. Will be returning this Friday.
You can find it on all podcast platforms and hey, look,
I noticed, if you just loved Outrageous Fortune, there is
actually if you happen to be in Auckland and in
conversation with the show's creator Rachel Lang and James Griffin.
(14:03):
It is happening on Friday, the eighteenth of July. Just
google it. Of course, it's happening out in West Auckland
and Henderson. Drinks and nibbles are included in the ticket price.
I think it would be a fascinating chat if you're
a huge fan of the show.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
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or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudkin
from News Talks, edb.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Right and Tonia Prepple has basically grown up on our
TV screens. She was a childhood actress and host of
after school show WNTV, but it was twenty years ago
this week that I think she really hit the big
time incredibly. This week marks the twentieth anniversary of the
first episode of Outrageous Fortune, We all fell in Love
with the Wests and Antonia as the young Loretta. Antonia
(00:35):
has also got some exciting personal projects on the go,
including new episodes of her podcast What Matters Most and
Tonia Prepple, Good morning.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Good morning, Oh so nice to talk to you. Thank
you for that lovely introduction.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Can you believe it's twenty years this Saturday since we
met the Wests.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I cannot believe it.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
One of the things that is most kind of wild
and hard to compute in my brain is that I
was twenty when I started the pilot gym and I
have turned forty one, so it was literally half my
life ago, and that is just so wild to me
to think that I had as many years of life
(01:15):
pre doing Outrageous Fortune, as I have post doing out
Ragius fort Tune is just crazy because of you know,
the first twent years of my life feel like they
were interminable, you know, the growing up time, and then the.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Last two years feel like they've raced by.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
So the fact that they're the same length of time
just makes me feel really weird.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
No, I get that. What did the show do for you?
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Oh gosh, it just changed my life in so many ways,
both professionally and personally. Like as you mentioned in your
lovely introduction, I had been acting a bit before that,
but I was mainly doing children's TV shows, So this
was my first adult show, and because it went for
(01:57):
so long, it actually kind of saw me through that
potentially difficult transition from child to grown up actor. You
know a lot of actors who start really young, they
just kind of get caught in this in between stage
because everyone just thinks of them as a child actor
even though they're now twenty six or something. But I
was on Outrageous from when I was twenty to twenty six,
so I came out of that show like grown up
(02:20):
ack jarin. People kind of accepted me as that, so
I never had that problem. And then of course when
west Side was written the prequel to Outrageous Fortune, which
I subsequently did for another six years, and I got
together with my husband on that show. We had our
first baby. You know, now we have two kids.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
So it just changed my life so much.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
But yeah, if I had known that from that first
day on set in two thousand and five playing Leretta,
that I would be a member of the west.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Family for the next twelve years and.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
That I would meet my husband as part of this
kind of universe, yeah, I mean, I would have told you.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
You've got to appreciate that opportunity, right, I mean, you know,
a show that comes along, well, two shows that come
along that are so loved in, things that are able
to keep you employed for such a period of time,
and there's always so much happening in them, and I'm
sure they kept you very stimulated as an actor as well.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
You're absolutely right.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
And I think also, you know, because times in terms
of the industry have changed a lot as well, So
in a way, it was sort of the golden age
of to be part of a show like that, because
like unheard of things happened. For example, we were given
funding for our next season before we'd even finished the
current one, and that is just unheard of.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
And I imagine even now, even if.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
A show was doing well, just because if the kind
of financial structures have changed, that would never happen.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
And so we were, you know, an acting.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Life as a precarious one at best, but we had
these few years of literally knowing what our next job
was going to be because we knew that the show
was just going to continue. And also back in those days,
it was really common to have many many episodes of
a season. So for example, in season one we started
with thirteen episodes, and by season four, I think we
(04:06):
were to like twenty two, and that just doesn't happen now.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Like if we think of all the.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Limited series that we no ande like, they're usually like six, eight,
maybe ten. So just to have this the size of job,
this number of episodes was such a gift because, as
you say, we just got to keep doing it and
playing these characters who had got themselves into extraordinary situations.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
So yeah, it was really stimulating.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
So then what's that like for you when that all ends?
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Yeah, and it really did kind of really end, because
the final season of West Side was over. Our COVID lockdouts,
you know, which well, you know, we started before that
six week first lockdown, and then we finished it after that,
and then of course we had the big lockdown in
Auckland after that. So it really did feel like it
(04:56):
the door really slammed shut because after that, you know,
the film industry was in quite a difficult time that
it's still really recovering from. So work definitely slowed down
quite sognificantly. Personally, I feel quite insulated from that because
I was having my children at the same time, so
it was it felt like a really natural time for
(05:17):
me to be stepping back a bit from professional commitments
and focusing on my kids and on domestic life for
a few years.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
So yeah, I was okay, but.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
I know some of the other my other cast members
did find it really difficult. And there's this thing in
the industry called the post show blues, and that's when
you finish this really intense time and then it all
stops that you can, you know, feel a bit down
and a bit sort of like, oh what do I
do with myself now? I've been used to getting up
at five am and working for twelve hours for.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
The last six months, but for me.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
I was still getting up at five, I think, dealing
with little children, so.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
It was not so bad for me.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
It was good timing. And look, timing is quite important
in this industry, you know, sort of being in the
right place at the right time, you know, can play
a part.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Oh, it really can.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
And I mean the funny thing about this industry is
that it's all about creation, right, So you literally don't
know what your next job is because that job hasn't
been created yet, And it's just this amazing synergy that
can happen sometimes when like, for example, Loretta, I was
twenty years old playing a fifteen year old in that
(06:27):
and you know, I think everyone you know, if they've
seen me on TV interviews or whatever, would see that
I'm quite different from Laretta, but there was some kind
of synergy with that character. Like because I actually first,
funnily enough audition for Pascal, and I did a terrible audition.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
I was really not good at Pascal.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
But then I got given the audition for Loretta, and
I just read this scene and I was like, I
know who this person is.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
I just know how to do it.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
And I only did one audition, which again is pretty
unheard of you usually do at least two or three,
and then they gave me their part, and so it
was like exactly like you say, there was just some
kind of kissmet or magic in that timing that I
was right for it or she was right for me
at that time. But yeah, if it was a year
before or after, then who knows.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Maybe not So considering how things are today and things,
does this drive you to create your own characters in
your own work?
Speaker 3 (07:20):
It does?
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Actually, Yeah, lockdown again for me was a really interesting
time to use that much overused word pivot and think
about other opportunities because you know, at that stage, we
really didn't know what the future was going to be
and if you know, international travel was ever going to
be possible again, and so I think we were all
grappling with the possibility that our lives, or our professional lives,
(07:45):
might be quite a lot smaller, perhaps purely limited to
New Zealand or maybe Australasia. So yeah, So my husband
Dan is a writer, so which is very handy for me.
So we did start developing our own projects over COVID
and we've continued to do that. None of them have
actually happened yet, but a few were close to happening.
But I find that really really interesting and stimulating, and
(08:09):
I'm learning a lot, so it feels like a great
direction to go in, or you know, to add a
few strings to my bow. And then the other thing
I did in Lockdown, as you mentioned in your introduction,
was yeah, create a podcast, and that has been really
great because I'm able to work that around little children commitments.
It's a lot less time to make a podcast than
(08:29):
a TV show.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Oh absolutely. And you do the podcast with your good
friend Jackie MacGuire. It's called What Matters Most. It's back
this Friday. What did the two of you hope to
get out of the podcast when you create?
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Yeah, so it's such a special project for us. So
Jackie and I we did for the first year of
your baby's lives. You can do this course at play
Center called Space and it's for new moms and new babies.
And Jackie and I were in the Space, the same
Space group. So you know, we've had a really long,
long friendship with each other in a really formative one
(09:03):
over those you know, early difficult years with babies. And
then i'd actually had originally had a podcast of my
own and Jackie as a clinical psychologist, had hurt her
own one, but we had the same producer, and it
was actually our producer's idea. Knowing that we were friends
and both having podcasts, who said, why don't we.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Kind of stated the obvious almost.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Yeah exactly, and we were like, oh, yeah, that's a
way better idea than the ones we're doing. So yeah,
we got together and yeah, this is our fourth season
coming up on Friday, And what we really wanted is
to have it feel like everyone listening is kind of
like having a cup of tea with us, if that
makes sense. So we wanted like a really kind of open, casual,
(09:45):
intimate feeling to really kind of celebrate the friendship that
we have as well. So it's not like a like
Jackie's a clinical psychologist, but we wanted these conversations to
be anything but clinical, and it's really to give information
to people listening that it's kind of like the therapy
that we all need in our everyday lives.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
So we're talking about like in this.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Upcoming season, for example, it's a but we talk about
things like perfectionism or why we have a need to
control things, or how to set boundaries and why that
might be difficult or how to cope with the reality
that you might not be exactly where you thought you
would be in your life at this particular moment.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
So it's those kind.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Of everyday issues that we talk about. And Jackie, she
just has such a gift at taking quite complex psychological
topics and explaining them in ways that we can understand.
So I sort of take the role of the listener.
You know, I'm I'm picking her brain and her expertise,
and I mean, I feel like I'm the luckiest person
(10:49):
in the world.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Was just getting free therapy and you.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Know, well, my friend and get free free therapy.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
It all sounds so relevant. Can I ask you, are
you where you thought you would be at this point
in your life?
Speaker 3 (11:03):
It's such a good question.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
And I was actually that not where I thought I
would be topic was one that I suggested we do
because for me, So I turned forty last year and
I don't know if you can relate to this, but
me and my peers, you know, who are all around
that forty mark. It feels like when you approach a
significant milestone birthday, it is the time when you reflect
(11:27):
on your life and you go, okay, I've had those
particular goals and dreams, and I really thought that they'd
be happening right by now. Because for me, again, I
really feel like when I turned forty, I couldn't deny.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
The fact that I was now a grown up and.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
My life was actually happening now, you know, like it
wasn't this thing in the future or I was like
building up to my real life, Like it really is
happening now. So if things aren't being realized, really, now's
the time to kind of take a long look at that.
And so, yeah, in some ways, I'm so happy with
where things are in my life, but absolutely in other areas,
(12:03):
I'm not where I thought I would be. I don't like,
for example, I'm so incredibly grateful for the career I have,
but I think when I was younger, I assumed that
perhaps by now i'd be working more internationally, and so
that is something to kind of, you know, grapple with.
And yeah, Jackie gives some really really and I think
(12:25):
it's a really common thing, like a lot of my
friends feeling the same way, and whether that's professionally, personally,
if they're married or not have children or not, you know,
all those big life expectations that we might have for ourselves,
and of course things always go in a different way,
and it's how can we kind of have compassion for
ourselves and enjoy where we are, even if it's not
exactly where we thought we would be.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Oh, I'm absolutely going to be listening very quickly. Though
you are working on an international production at the moment.
I don't know if you can tell us much about it.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Yes, yeah, I think I can tell you what it is.
It's cool.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Well, look I'm just gonna that's great. It's called ms
X and it's a show for TV three. It's like
a black comedy or comedy drama. And it's starring Melissa George.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Do you know, yes Australian.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yes, yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
I mean I have loved her since Home and Away
playing Angel Iconic, so I've really loved working with her.
Deno Gorman's also and it's Simone Kessel and yeah, it's
really fun. I probably can't say too much about my
character other than she is an absolute delight, very different
from anything I've played before, the opposite of like a
(13:33):
Loretta and Rita. But I've just had the most fun.
She's quite she's quite ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
In some ways. So I'm really looking forward to people
meeting her.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Oh I love it. Hey, Antonia, really nice to talk
to you. Thank you so much for your time today.
Really appreciate it. What matters most. Will be returning this Friday.
You can find it on all podcast platforms and hey, look,
I noticed, if you just loved Outrageous Fortune, there is
actually if you happen to be in Auckland and in
conversation with the show's creator Rachel Lang and James Griffin.
(14:03):
It is happening on Friday, the eighteenth of July. Just
google it. Of course, it's happening out in West Auckland
and Henderson. Drinks and nibbles are included in the ticket price.
I think it would be a fascinating chat if you're
a huge fan of the show.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
For more from the Sunday session with Francesca Rudkin, listen
live to News Talks a B from nine am Sunday,
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