Co-produced by and starring Claudia Karvan, the series reunites her with long-term collaborator John Edwards, who made Karvanâs much-loved series Love My Way and The Secret Life of Us.
But this time, there are some new faces are along for the ride, including creator and first time screenwriter Kelsey Munro, and emerging actors Nathalie Morris and Carlos Sanson, who play the teen parents.
With episodes directed by Geoff Bennett, Gracie Otto and Leticia Caceres, Morris delivers a star turn as pregnant teen Oly (Karvan plays her mum Angie). She sent her audition tape in from New Zealand.
âWe didnât have to see a second audition,â Karvan says. âShe was living and breathing Oly the moment we saw her.â
Bump could be a career-maker for Claudia Karvan s handpicked stars
Bump could be a career-maker for Claudia Karvan s handpicked stars
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Nathalie Morris and Carlos Sanson jnr are swapping the kind of war stories all new parents – and anyone with a difficult workmate – can relate to.
Morris: “I just did the scene with the breastfeeding where you’re texting me and I smile. You wouldn t know it, because I’ve watched it back, but the baby was screaming the whole way through.”
Claudia Karvan and Nathalie Morris play a mother and daughter - Angie and Oly - in the new comedy Bump.
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Speaking to Daily Mail Australia at the premiere, Claudia explained how fortunate it was to be able to film the production amid the coronavirus pandemic. It was a bit of a miracle to be able to film through covid, she said.
Stunning: All glammed up for the occasion, the 48-year-old Australian actress was a vision dressed in a burgundy coloured velvet halter with matching pants There were nail biting days because this is a show that is set in a high school and we couldn t have access during the weekdays, Claudia continued. We had hospital scenes and couldn t get into hospitals, we had a newborn and we couldn t get a newborn. there was a lot of covid curve balls that we worked our way around, she added.
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Claudia added that she was also uncomfortable playing the older lover of a then-underage Alex Dimitriades, now 46.
Her character, Christina Papadopoulos, was a 22-year-old teacher who falls for her student, 17-year-old Nick Polides.
Then: I only fessed up recently that I felt so embarrassed I played a Greek girl. Can you imagine how I would be taken down today? she said. Pictured in The Heartbreak Kid with co-star Alex Dimitriades
A few years: Claudia added that she was also uncomfortable playing the older lover of a then-underage Alex Dimitriades, now 46. Claudia was 19, while her co-star Alex was 17, when they starred together in the film, in which she portrayed his teacher. Pictured together in 2005