Quotes

I really believed that I could do the role and I fought for it, I suppose. I just knew an opportunity like this rarely rarely comes along.

I'm playing Nicola Gobbo from her uni days to present day really: so the Royal Commission and how we got to the quite dramatic situation that has unfolded in the last year or so. It's a long period to play somebody, which has been a really interesting thing to do.

When we got caught up on little factual details, Geoff our director said to us, 'Hey, we're not making a documentary here, we're making an interpretation of events.' No-one knows exactly what happened in these situations. No-one knows the truth. All we can do is puzzle a few things together.

The workload was immense and it was a short shoot, relatively speaking, shooting four hours of television in just over five weeks. You run the gamut of emotions in something like this, so it was a very physical shoot as well. I've never had that kind of workload on a television show before.

[on filming Informer 3838]; I just read the scene and thought, 'Wow this is going to be an incredible character.' It's an unusual opportunity because we know very little about the character personally. So it left a lot up to us creatively, to try and understand what motivated the character.

Actors, writers, all creative people just want to understand how people tick.

She's enigmatic in a lot of ways, and that's a gift as an actor because we're not making any moral judgments on any of these characters. Bad people do good things, good people do bad things. I think it's always fraught when you're playing real people, because there's that sensitivity that they're going to maybe watch it at some point and feel like we are judging the situation.

There's so much stuff around obviously in the press, that it can distract from just trying to create a whole character. You don't want to get caught up in thinking 'That was good or that was bad.' I don't believe any humans are all good or bad. We are all pretty complicated beasts. There are parts of this story that are really tragic but it's always good to find the lightness in the dark. I think that's the same with exploring a character that's so divisive and complex.

Whether you're playing Macbeth or Maleficent, you never judge a character," she explains. "You always look at your character as a whole person and try and understand what could have happened to somebody when they were younger, that makes them behave a certain way.

With this character in particular I loved trying to understand her and the situation and hopefully the audience is as intrigued as we all were in making it.