Sea Patrol 3 - Red Gold, will chart the course of the Royal
Australian Navy ship HMAS Hammersley as its crew protects
Australia's coastline.
Sea Patrol favourites including XO Kate McGregor (Lisa McCune, who
scored a Logie nomination for the role in 2008), CO Mike Flynn (Ian
Stenlake) and NO Nikki Caetano (Saskia Burmeister) will all return,
while season three's guest stars include Tasma Walton (Blue
Heelers), Blair McDonough (Neighbours) and Jessica Napier (McLeod's
Daughters).
Executive producer Di McElroy offered only a tiny clue about the
plotlines of the upcoming season, revealing that that the title Red
Gold refers to "to the deep-sea red fan coral whose weight is worth
more than gold".
A Brand New Fan Group For The Series at :
http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/Sea_Patrol/
Subject: [Nadine_Garner] Peter O'Brien behaving very badly
Playing the hero on screen is always a good way to get yourself into the limelight, but ask any actor where the real challenge is and they'll agree - sometimes it's good to be bad.
Whether they're the bad guys with an evil laugh or the beautiful but scheming vamp luring the innocents to their doom, playing the villain presents an irresistible challenge to actors - how do you make an audience care about someone who really isn't that nice?
"It's definitely a challenge and something you really have to be careful with," says Peter O'Brien, who from this week joins Nadine Garner, Daniel MacPherson, Shane Bourne and the rest of the City Homicide team as one of the worst imaginable bad guys, a criminal whose crimes have affected children.
"And I was just discussing that with friends this week, because I know that once you have children yourself, there's a real difference in perception. Anything bad that happens to children is very, very difficult to see so there's this huge challenge [as an actor] to give a storyline and a character some accessibility.
"You can't change who they are and what they have done, but at the same time you have to present it to an audience in a way that is intriguing so they follow you rather than just pigeonhole you."
Fortunately, O'Brien said, the whole City Homicide team had taken up the task of presenting his character's story, with the traditional cop-show format abandoned for the next few episodes. The result is crime from a completely different point of view.
"I'd never seen City Homicide so before I took the role I watched a few DVDs and already thought this was some of the best cop stuff I'd seen in a while," O'Brien said.
"And then with this particular story it's different again. They've broken part of their format and are telling things from a different point of view. The director has layered things in a way that's not the standard 'here's a cop, here's a bad guy, let's solve the crime' format and I really enjoyed it."
O'Brien also enjoyed the fact that, for the time being at least, he was working back in Australia. Both he and wife Miranda Otto had been in the US working on various projects (notably Gossip Girl and Cashmere Mafia respectively) when the US writers' strike cut things short.
"There's that old expression that if you want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans," O'Brien said. "I just think that's what happens. While you're heading in one direction you start making inroads in other areas and other opportunities open up."
O'Brien's busy hands
If there's one thing Peter O'Brien has learned, it's that he doesn't have a high boredom threshold.
Happiest when he's busy, O'Brien took advantage of the recent US writers' strike to enrol in New York University's filmmaking course - and topped his class with three short films.
"I'm now putting in for funding to make a couple of other shorts and we'll see how that goes," he said. "It's all with the intention of working towards getting a feature [film] up. That's what I'm geared towards."
Playing the hero on screen is always a good way to get yourself into
the limelight, but ask any actor where the real challenge is and
they'll agree - sometimes it's good to be bad.
Whether they're the bad guys with an evil laugh or the beautiful but
scheming vamp luring the innocents to their doom, playing the
villain presents an irresistible challenge to actors - how do you
make an audience care about someone who really isn't that nice?
"It's definitely a challenge and something you really have to be
careful with," says Peter O'Brien, who from this week joins Nadine
Garner, Daniel MacPherson, Shane Bourne and the rest of the City
Homicide team as one of the worst imaginable bad guys, a criminal
whose crimes have affected children.
"And I was just discussing that with friends this week, because I
know that once you have children yourself, there's a real difference
in perception. Anything bad that happens to children is very, very
difficult to see so there's this huge challenge [as an actor] to
give a storyline and a character some accessibility.
"You can't change who they are and what they have done, but at the
same time you have to present it to an audience in a way that is
intriguing so they follow you rather than just pigeonhole you."
Fortunately, O'Brien said, the whole City Homicide team had taken up
the task of presenting his character's story, with the traditional
cop-show format abandoned for the next few episodes. The result is
crime from a completely different point of view.
"I'd never seen City Homicide so before I took the role I watched a
few DVDs and already thought this was some of the best cop stuff I'd
seen in a while," O'Brien said.
"And then with this particular story it's different again. They've
broken part of their format and are telling things from a different
point of view. The director has layered things in a way that's not
the standard 'here's a cop, here's a bad guy, let's solve the crime'
format and I really enjoyed it."
O'Brien also enjoyed the fact that, for the time being at least, he
was working back in Australia. Both he and wife Miranda Otto had
been in the US working on various projects (notably Gossip Girl and
Cashmere Mafia respectively) when the US writers' strike cut things
short.
"There's that old expression that if you want to make God laugh,
tell Him your plans," O'Brien said. "I just think that's what
happens. While you're heading in one direction you start making
inroads in other areas and other opportunities open up."
O'Brien's busy hands
If there's one thing Peter O'Brien has learned, it's that he doesn't
have a high boredom threshold.
Happiest when he's busy, O'Brien took advantage of the recent US
writers' strike to enrol in New York University's filmmaking course -
and topped his class with three short films.
"I'm now putting in for funding to make a couple of other shorts and
we'll see how that goes," he said. "It's all with the intention of
working towards getting a feature [film] up. That's what I'm geared
towards."
City Homicide, Monday, 8.30pm, Seven.
Nadine Garner's Fan Group is at:
http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/Nadine_Garner/
written by Scott Ellis ,the editor of The Sun-Herald Television
Magazine.
July 27, 2008
http://www.smh.com.au/news/tv--radio/man-behaving-very-
badly/2008/07/27/1217097026684.html
this thing looks good to me but it could come across as a mini stricly ballroom but it does have an impressive cast list so if anyones lucky enough to go and see it let me know what im missing i like dance shows and loved strictly ballroom and dirty dancing .
--- On Fri, 4/25/08, Terry <modelpower2006@...> wrote:
From: Terry <modelpower2006@...> Subject: [Nadine_Garner] Razzle Dazzle, as you’d expect from the title, is pure gold To: Nadine_Garner@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, April 25, 2008, 5:40 AM
Razzle Dazzle, as you'd expect from the title, is pure gold. It's a hilarious behind-the-scenes look at the cut throat world of children's dance and eisteddfods and boasts a cast of some of the best Australia has to offer, including Tara Morice – the goth who also makes kiddies costumes, Paul Mercurio – a celebrity dance teacher, Jane Hall – the deliciously traditional dance teacher Miss Elizabeth, and showstopper Kerry Armstrong, who plays the stage mother to end all stage mothers – Justine.
Nadine Garner plays one of the more sane characters – a hopelessly disorganised single mum who sends her daughter along to classes simply because she wants her daughter to be happy. She's a breath of fresh air and is one of the few moral compasses in the film. As is Mr. Jonathon played by English actor Ben Miller. His character is truly awkward, a loser in every sense of the word and completely
devoid of talent, but you just can't help secretly rooting for the poor man.