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I ended up going to America for an acting workshop, and everything sort of kicked off from there.
Ideally, you end up going to auditions not because you want a job but because you want to try out a character.
Anytime you're telling a story about monsterhood, you're playing around with ideas about otherness and alienation.
The thing is, acting is supposed to be fun - maybe not always in a way that's lighthearted, but always in a way that's satisfying.
When I was sent the material for auditions for 'Dramaworld,' I didn't know much about the international fandom surrounding Korean dramas.
I was asked recently about the fact I show my body more in 'Homecoming Queens' than I have in other things and whether that was difficult to do. I never thought twice about it.
I didn't go to university. I studied theatre in high school and worked with Canberra Youth Theatre and The Street Theatre and other theatre organisations in Canberra, and that's how I got my training.
I started in theatre when I was a teenager, and I sort of fell into screen acting by accident because I had friends who were at university studying how to be filmmakers, and they didn't have to pay me to be in their student films.
I had never spent any time in Asia before, so when I flew over to film 'Dramaworld' in Seoul, the cast and crew and I became very good friends. That was the first time I had an experience like that, which I treasure and hold dearly.
One of the things I love about my job is that it offers me an opportunity to step into different people and different spaces and different kinds of work in every new thing that I do. I'm just looking forward to the surprises I'm going to have.
I speak publicly about the things I am speaking privately about, and there is no difference - the things I'm passionate about and dissecting with my friends and family, the things that are valuable to me, are the things that I publicly share and publicly promote.
You do some acting in a room for a few minutes, hopefully get something out of it that makes you a bit better at acting, and go home. Maybe the people in the room with you liked the acting you did. Maybe they didn't! Either way, it's not the end of the world; you'll be doing this again soon.