![]() Husky: This is the most isolated I’ve ever been, I think. ![]() It’s a very different approach to creativity. Now that life is on hold, I have these vast slabs of time laid out and I can do whatever I want – from lots to absolutely nothing. Writing music used to always be interrupted by life. I’ve been working to a schedule – which sounds boring – but there are hours I have in place. In some ways, isolation has been great for me. Gideon: I have my piano and that’s about it. Watch Wentworth Season 8 on Foxtel Husky Gawenda and Gideon Preiss, musicians and bandmates in indie-folk group, Husky It’s not just about the future of the arts. We’re giving them nothing to sustain them and that’s going to have a big impact. So I offered to read some stories in our accent, in our emotional language.Īustralian stories and voices are going to be so important for our children as they come out of this pandemic and yet we’ve stopped committing to kids’ drama on screen. I’ve also been doing some reading and recording stories for children because the thing I noticed while we were all homeschooling is that everything seems to be read by Americans. I don’t believe for a second that’s true. I think it’s to do with performers being cast as “non-essential” workers. Our job is to be as open and available as possible and after all this ends, I don’t know if I’ll be as open as I used to be. I think isolation is very hard for actors. Like everyone, my vulnerability has been tested over the past few months. It was like, is Bruce Willis going to come around the corner? I was able to shoot what was needed and managed to get to Hobart two hours before they closed the airport at midnight. I started panicking because Tasmania started talking about closing its borders and I hadn’t seen my family for a really long time. Masks and sanitiser started appearing on the set. So as Covid was rolling in, I found myself in this really interior world of a prison. Watch Bay of Fires Sundays at 8.30pm on ABC TV and ABC iview.I was in Sydney doing The Deep Blue Sea as news of the pandemic started to build and straight after that I flew to Melbourne to shoot Wentworth for two solid weeks. "I'm dreaming up as many stories as I can to cram into the next 20 years of my life that I think are interesting and cutting-edge for women, creating women that I haven't seen in Australia yet." And I just think that's going to grow their market and their diversity on their platforms as well," she says. "I see that as a real opportunity to reinvest in who we are and what we stand for. It's a live conversation." Rise of streaming servicesĭusseldorp says streaming services have provided more spaces for women's stories to be told, and she's pleased there are plans for Australian content quotas to be introduced for streaming companies. "If everyone's at the table, then I think real change can happen. But I think also we need to have everyone at the table to make real change, so that people aren't doing anything in the back rooms going, 'Ah, we're just going to do it anyway.' It's a good warning shot, you know, if there needs to be one. ![]() I see that there's reasons for it sometimes. ![]() "Now I feel really safe in that and assured in that, and it's just about giving a little signal saying, 'Oh, we don't joke like that anymore.' And it just nips it in the bud and means you can get on with the with the job at hand. "You can walk into a room and be assured that if it isn't being led the way it should, that there is language to introduce to the room to change that at the time. "I think there's definitely the right language now," she says. This was only confirmed by the Me Too movement, which rippled throughout the local industry.ĭusseldorp says in her experience, things are changing for the better. In the past the film and TV industry has had a reputation of being a boys' club, with a poor record on sexism and ageism, both onscreen and behind the camera. ![]()
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