Theresa Healey: from Play School to nurse Carmen...
2012
Actor Theresa Healey first appeared on-screen, entertaining a generation of kids on Play School, having already supplied the voice for the show's famous 'here's a house' opening. She won more fans thanks to a five year stint as nurse Carmen Roberts on Shortland Street. Since then Healey has acted in everything from Go Girls and Agent Anna, to movies Jubilee and Savage Honeymoon.
In this ScreenTalk interview, Healey talks about:
- Learning not to look bored on the set of Play School
- Being unsure of the director's intentions on cult short film Kitchen Sink
- Loving playing the "sassy" Carmen on Shortland Street
- Filming an embarrassing sex scene for Marlin Bay
- Being unhappy with her work on Jubilee, and the differences between acting for television and film
- Loving the experience of Dancing with the Stars, even though it was exhausting
- Playing a money-obsessed mother on Go Girls
Interview Credit
Interview, Camera and Editing – Andrew Whiteside
“The character was sassy. She got all the best lines. The writers loved her, and because I could deliver them, they loved that. If they love you, they write for you, and they looked after me so well . . . The character was very much their creation, but then I put my little bit of extra Theresa-ness in there and I loved it; I loved her.”
Theresa Healey on playing nurse Carmen Roberts to life on Shortland Street
Copyright
This video was first uploaded on 17 January 2012, 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.
