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That's why doing plays is so wonderful because nobody cares. I'm working and I'm playing roles that I love and care about and representing the community that I belong to and I fight for.

When I read the brief I felt I just had to do this role; I was drawn to it immediately.

I've never seen a cis gender person tell a transgender story 100 percent believably. There is a level of authenticity in representation that comes when you have somebody who gets it, feels it in their bones and they have lived it.

In the screen industry there is still a sliver of people who say, 'Now that we know you are gay we could not possibly believe that you could be in love with a man.

He's not who you would expect to see in prison, but he comes in with his partner and major love of his life, Lou's a former Top Dog of Wentworth and Reb's never been to prison, so he's understandably terrified and timid and shy and gentle.

I do know my stuff though. I listened and did everything I could earlier in the year.

Balance is tricky. My focus ... has been more towards the play's direction. I have no idea how I am going to do.

I burst into tears. [And] when we shot it, it was so hard because for me and Kate, it felt like grieving Reb and Lou, the characters, and saying goodbye to them, because we love them so much. And yeah, the first take we did of it - because Kate is so extraordinary and it's very hard to hear somebody that you love crying in your face about you dying! - in the first take I had a wobble chin, I kept crying. I just bawled my eyes out, so it was one of the hardest scenes we had to shoot, and all I had to do was be a dead body!

It was very hard to navigate. Reb was in quite a compromised position because he loves Lou like a soulmate, and Marie like a mum, so when your mum and your soulmate hate each other, it doesn't go very well!

Well, Marts and I have worked together so many times - she's played my carer, my mother, she's played my mother-in-law - we've done it all, so it felt like that the only thing left for her to do was to kill me!

It feels like a real honour to be at the barrier being the first to [play] this [type of role] in the country. I felt that it was so important for Reb, and I really fought for the role. I contacted producers [to say], 'You can change the game here - please, if you have the opportunity to do it, do it. Or you can take a step backwards.' And they didn't, and I'm very grateful for that.

I felt a great deal of pressure, especially [when we started] shooting, because it was such a massive job. I was 19 then, and just feeling the weight of a whole community - of the whole trans community - on [my] shoulders, and feeling the pressure to represent all of them. [For me, it was like], 'I can barely speak for myself. I don't know how the fuck to speak for everybody.'