Marta Dusseldorp Instagram – When Marta Dusseldorp describes herself as a jobbing actor, you better believe her. The grind of the weekly television series is one of the toughest gigs apart from the eight-shows-a-week stage play — the key difference being there’s a new set of lines every day on a TV set.
“I heard Jessica Marais once give an interview and she said, ‘I’ve spoken more scripted words this year than I have my own,'” recalls Dusseldorp.
“And I thought, ‘Yeah, I know what you mean.’ Because the amount of lines I needed to learn for Janet King was unnatural to say the least.”
After decades of success on the small screen and stage, including on beloved shows BlackJack and Jack Irish, Dusseldorp moved with her family to Tasmania and started Archipelago Productions with her husband, actor and director Ben Winspear, producing plays, films and her celebrated TV show, Bay of Fires.
Read the full article by Virginia Trioli at the link in our bio.
Watch Marta Dusseldorp on Creative Types with Virginia Trioli on ABC TV and ABC iview tonight at 9pm. | Posted on 23/Apr/2024 09:12:49
