ScreenTalk: Simone Kessell
21 Oct 2014
Simone Kessell first appeared on screen playing Hannah Tumai on short-lived soap Homeward Bound.
Simone Kessell first appeared on screen playing Hannah Tumai on short-lived soap Homeward Bound. She acted in both Hercules and Xena before being cast as a TV journalist on Cover Story, and as the lead in period drama Greenstone.
Kessell has worked in both America and Australia, and appeared in Aussie dramas Underbelly and Wonderland.
In this ScreenTalk, Kessell talks about:
- Learning an Australian accent to play a Maori role on Homeward Bound
- Getting a role on Cover Story when only 18 years old
- Having to find a ‘fake’ way to cry on set
- Having issues with her character in period drama Greenstone
- Being proud of the part she played in series two of Underbelly
- Becoming a ‘kickass’ soldier fighting dinosaurs on Terra Nova
- Feeling devastated after being shot in the head on set
- Rehearsing in 40 degree heat for time travel tale The Lovers
- Playing a hooker with a heart of gold in Aussie drama Wonderland
This video is available on YouTube to embed and distribute via a Creative Commons licence.