Katrina Hobbs: forging a career on both sides of the Tasman...

Interview – 2014

Actor Katrina Hobbs has worked in New Zealand, Australia and Russia. She kicked off her screen career as a teen hero in The Boy from Andromeda and a young wife in WWll romance Absent Without Leave. Since then she has appeared in TV shows Shortland Street, Willy Nilly and Home and Away. Besides acting, she has been a presenter on More than Sport, Destination Ski New Zealand and Russia Today.

In this ScreenTalk interview, Hobbs talks about:

Getting good advice from her mother, producer Aileen O’Sullivan, about her first role in The Boy from Andromeda
Studying hard to gain experience for movie Absent Without Leave
Relishing playing her first "adult" character in Marlin Bay
Being thrown by the pace of production on Shortland Street
Having a baptism of fire in a lead role on Home and Away
Feeling frustrated by her role as a matronly doctor on the soap
How playing a character with schizophrenia challenged her in Cover Story
Enjoying the camaraderie on the set of Willy Nilly
Playing the dodgy neighbour on Rake
Really appreciating having a career on both sides of the Tasman

This video was first uploaded on 10 November 2014, 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 – Andrew Whiteside

I was really keen to do as well as I could, be as prepared as I could . . . and I have to thank mum and my sister Jessica for that. They said 'don't ever go to set when you're not prepared'. And its true, don't ever go on set if you don't know all your lines, cause it's just not fair on anybody else.
– Katrina Hobbs on taking acting advice from a family who had worked in the screen industry

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