Actor Sophie Hambleton talks to Joanna Wane about playing Dame Jacinda Ardern, the most loved and hated Prime Minister in New Zealand’s history “Ardern is.
Transmission runs until May 1 at BATS Theatre.
Transmission, Written by Stuart McKenzie, Co-directed by Miranda Harcourt and Stuart McKenzie, BATS Theatre, April 20-May 1, reviewed by Sonya Stewart It’s surreal to watch a story based on something you were a part of. Most of the opening night’s crowd were part of the team of 5 million, that watched and waited anxiously in the lead up to and execution of the level 4 lockdown. You don’t often get that personal connection to the performance as an audience member. Based on 20 hours of interviews with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson and leading epidemiologist Michael Baker, these are their words, verbatim.
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Kiwi actress Thomasin McKenzie and Miranda Harcourt s daring new roles
25 Feb, 2021 06:00 PM
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New Zealand Woman s Weekly
Thomasin McKenzie is used to walking red carpets in glamorous gowns and starring beside Hollywood greats like Scarlett Johansson, but it s the simple pleasures in life, like lemony chickpea soup, that keep the young Kiwi actress happy.
Chatting from her family home in Wellington, beside her acting coach mother Miranda Harcourt, 58, Thomasin credits home-made comfort food for getting her through some big days on set. For a while, it s all I wanted, lemony chickpea soup, grins the blue-eyed beauty, 20, who wowed audiences with her performance as Jewish teen Elsa Korr on Taika Waititi s satire film Jojo Rabbit.