Q&A with Robyn
1. What are you doing with yourself now that Outrageous Fortune has finished production?
I was in a movie here in New Zealand and had guest roles in a film and a television show in Australia. Two pieces of theatre here one the end of last year and most recently Mary Stuart for the Auckland Theatre Company.
I also moved home and ironically am now living out West. I’m working on a few projects for the future and keeping my hand in as far as Australian work goes. Two kids and a family pretty badly affected by the Christchurch earthquake and I’m still busy girl.
2. How does that compare to your life while you were on the show?
To be honest it feels more hectic and chaotic now. Doing one show in one place with a schedule and a call time is easy. All care no responsibility! Now it’s all about juggling everything and making sure money is made somewhere in the middle!
3. What do you miss most about your Outrageous Fortune days?
The people: the cast and crew. They become like family. They see your best bits and your worst bits.
4. Can you create a comparison for us between working on Season One and Season six? How did they differ?
I love season one hugely. It was very guerrilla I think. Honest and straight forward and rough round the edges. Some of my favourite episodes ever are from that season. We were all bright eyed and bushy tailed and had nothing to live up to. Season 6 had behind it all that success and honed skill, much flasher production values. I think perhaps we were taking ourselves pretty seriously by then. Still awesome though. But a very different show in some senses.
5. What is your fondest memory of making Outrageous Fortune?
John Leigh as Sparky naked in the Waitaks.
6. Do you have any exciting projects coming up you can share with us?
I do but I can’t share them yet!
7. What did you think of the Outrageous Fortune exhibition?
Surreal and weird. Wonderfully done. Felt like a distancing moment where the show became no longer ours but something beyond that...where it should be actually - with the audience.
8. If you could make a guest appearance on any TV show in the world, what show would that be and why?
The West Wing. If it was still going. Amazingly clever scripts, acting and direction. Love those long walking talking shots. Imagine shooting in the Oval office.
9. While you’re watching the re-runs (!) what storyline will you be most excited about seeing?
To be honest I’m not sure I’ll watch much. I’ve lived it, saw it on the telly first time round and I have them all on DVD! Plus I’ve moved on now. It’s like you don’t go back to your old lovers unless there is an extremely good reason! But there are so many stories I’d sit down and watch through if the telly was on. The stories James and Rachel came up with were consistently wonderful.
There was one about a jigsaw puzzle (in season 3)…I poo poo’d it vociferously at the time and it ended up being one of the best of the season!! Shows how much I know. I remember loving watching it, funny character driven and real. Also the ‘Ranger Graham’ ep I really liked I thought was hilarious. Sometimes those eps which aren’t so much about the main thrust of a season but a small segue into something else are truly great.
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