Jodie Rimmer grew up in a sporty family where dinnertime conversations were more likely to be about rugby or netball than the finer aspects of acting or television drama. Fast forward a handful of years, and the dinner conversations may well have touched on Rimmer’s stand-out performances as Donna Chisholm in tele-feature Until Proven Innocent, or playing wife to British comedian Peter Cook in Not Only But Always.

In this ScreenTalk, Rimmer talks about:

• The challenges of ill-fated sitcom Melody Rules
• Playing a drug smuggler on Shortland Street
• How she felt about the nudity required for TV series The Strip
• How she landed the part of Jackie in the film In My Father’s Den
• Insights into life as an actor
• Working with Welsh actor Rhys Ifans on TV movie Not Only But Always  
• How she played journalist Donna Chisholm in Until Proven Innocent
  
• Her experiences on Apron Strings
• Acting with another Ryan — Ryan Gosling — on short-lived series Young Hercules