EDITORIAL · SA STYLE MAGAZINE · ISSUE #29
interview · words · creative direction
As Network Ten’s Offspring returns for its seventh season this year, we continue to fall further in love with TV’s Golden Girl, Asher Keddie. With seven logies under her belt and a slew of recent acting nods, including her stand out role as Ita Buttrose in Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo, she’s forever paving her way as an inspirational Aussie actress, role model and powerhouse in the industry. We can’t get Asher out of our heads… nor do we want to!
Have you had the chance to visit South Australia recently? Not recently no… It’s been a long time! I’ve just been talking about that actually. I would like to visit Kangaroo Island again, I did a film there about 10 years ago and I really loved it. My partner has never travelled to South Australia before so I’m keen to take him down there too.
Congrats on Offspring returning to Network Ten for its seventh season in 2017. How was last year’s homecoming following the show’s two-year hiatus? It felt really good… like it always had. There were extra challenges because I had a young baby at the time. Anybody returning to work with a little one knows it’s always a shock to the system, but because it was so familiar, such a good place to be and to work, and a great character to play, I just loved it!
How do you find a healthy work/life balance now that you’re a mother? I get lots of help [laughs], so when I come home my time is spent with the boys, as opposed to doing a million chores around the house.
As a single actor, you have that pleasure to come home with a glass of wine on the couch and learn your script for the next day’s work. Gone are the days I can do that.
Finishing off as much work as I can during the day means I can come home and play, have dinner and put them to bed. You know, the normal things people do when they have kids. It’s not easy to balance, but we make it work pretty well now.
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