Jaquie Brown: on not being Jackie Clarke...

Interview – 2009

After co-hosting music show Space with Dominic Bowden, Jaquie Brown became one of the main anchors on music channel C4. Brown was a reporter on current affairs show Campbell Live before stepped into the realm of programme-making. Forming her own company with Gerard Johnstone, she produced and starred in The Jaquie Brown Diaries. The show was named Best Comedy at the 2009 Qantas Film and Television Awards.

In this ScreenTalk interview, Brown talks about:

How she looked as a 15-year-old
How she handled her first live broadcast
How a shocking night club revelation helped secure her role on the TV show Space
The joys of live TV, working with Clarke Gayford, and being mistaken for Jackie Clarke and beating her up
What it was like to work with John Campbell
Which of her character’s mortifying experiences in The Jaquie Brown Diaries actually happened
Some of the behind-the-scenes challenges of making TV

This video was first uploaded on 16 November 2009, and is available under this Creative Commons licence. This licence is limited to use of ScreenTalk interview footage only and does not apply to any video content and photographs from films, television, music videos, web series and commercials used in the interview.

Interview, Camera and Editing – James Coleman

i remember being really overwhelmed on the first day of shooting and finding all these people that were there just for this idea that we'd had, and obviosuly its just a job for them and it not such a big deal, but for me its a really big deal to turn up and there be a whole big crew
– Jaquie Brown on seeing her ideas come to life filming The Jaquie Brown Diaries

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