I am a whore of the press. A media darling. I cannot and will not stop promoting my work until I drop dead of exertion aged 27, Ã la so many equally famous tragic stars of the stage and screen before me. (jk I'm 150 years old)
So if you're wondering if having my own show has gone to my head? Noooo!! (screams as they drag me into a home and mercifully lobotomize me)
Honestly though a lobotomy sounds...so good right now. The exercise of promoting a show has been enough to put me back on Lexapro (why did I ever go off?) (weight gain, ofc.) I have been cyberbullied within an inch of my life (one reviewer said something vaguely constructive about me). I have forced myself to respond to every single DM I've received with overflowing, unnecessarily personal messages of deepest thanks that have cost me years of my life. And I've LOVED EVERY MINUTE OF IT.
As I have previously stated, this blog is designed to be consumed by nobody and if you're reading it right now - I consider you to be a very sick and dangerous individual who must be stopped at all costs (also thank you! omg - hi!) What is here being broadcast to the furthest reaches of the internet would surely be much better served as a diary, where I could download these thoughts and then tuck away them inside a drawer. But alas, I don't own one of those or go to therapy so here we are.
What I would really like to do here is pump-and-dump some of the interviews I've been doing to promo the show because it's been very un-Tall Poppy of me and actually pretty neat and fun. I love meeting people and chattinggg and getting to talk about my workkkk and being chauffeured around to interviews and fittings by my impossibly supportive mum and daddd - 'coz who wouldn't want to get a bit of extra car time with Gail and David - and I'm beyond fortunate to have been afforded the chance to do all this because lord knows our show had a tiny budget and has, media-wise outperformed its status as a TVNZ On Demand web series by an insaaaaane degree (thanks to evil geniuses Tamar Münch and Alex Dyer).
So without further ado, here are some interview links and clips! Preserved for eternity here online so that I may point at them with an arthritic finger, some day, when the other folks in the Home don't believe me that I had my 15 minutes and I can tell 'em yes I did - and gosh darn it, I made the most of 'em.
'Canvas Magazine' in the New Zealand Herald - with Joanna Mathers.
It has been my dreeeam to do a Canvas interview, as I worship at the altar of their Simon Shuker code cracker every week and never did I ever imagine they'd put me on the front cov.
'Listener Magazine' Interview - with Russell Baillie
This image is actually too low quality to read but that's okay. Trust me - it was fab!
RNZ 'The Laugh Track' Interview - with Lynn Freeman
I had to do literal coding and hack the mainframe of the interweb to upload the audio below so I am, now, truly, a woman in tech.
Here's a little descriptch of what we spoke about - I basically just got to talk through some of my favourite comedy clips and it was very fun.
'Seven Sharp' Interview
This was such an interesting process - basically my side of the interview took place in the lobby of TVNZ with Matty on the phone and then he re-recorded his side of the conversation later on live TV - truly the magic of television vibes.
Stuff Review - James Croot
Someone call the police, my show has been stolen? Luv this generous review that rightly praises the brilliant actors who play my family in the show, who are finally getting the attention they truly deserve.
'Hey Alma' Article - Evelyn Frick
I mean...'Hey Alma' is my everything. And, earnest vibes but I hope our show does get to reach U.S audiences eventually! Okay? There, I said it.
'Stuff' Interview - Sapeer Mayron. Photos by Abigail Dougherty.
I got to do this very spesh interview with fellow Yid, Sapeer, who is an absolute gorgy delight and I love the photos that were taken - particularly the one of me in front of a dump and the one where a stranger's dog wandered into the shoot.
Also neeever felt more glam than when I went to Showroom 22 and pick out some threads from local brand 'Kowtow'. They had to prise them out of my cold dead hand when it was time to return them.
This same article was in 9 other national papers, as seen gorgeously below:
Pretttyyyy cool.
'Today FM', Sunday Café - Melanie Homer
Mel and I chatted about all sorts and MediaWorks bought me a coffee. It was a long-form podcast type chat but was also being broadcast on live radio and I debuted a blazer my mum bought me, which no one could see because it was radio so I'm sharing a photo below.
'Stuff' Interview - Grant Smithies
Another gorgina Stuff Article. Grant and I talked about the show but we actually bonded about our incredible cats.
'Hey Alma' Interview - Evelyn Frick
This is maybe the longest of the interviews and was really close to my heart bone. Evelyn, the writer is amazingly cool and sweet and we had a very fun long Zoom hang. It was nice to have an interview where I could delve into the the Jewishness of Kid Sister with the assumption that the reader will understand the complexity of the culture and its multifaceted-ness andddd it has some really cute pics in there too, lol out loud.
So that concludes the grand media tour! And I'm certainly not withholding any article that said anything untoward about my acting because that's everything so I don't know why you brought that up :)
I'm going to take a minute and summon my ancestors for some side chats and chillin' and then it's time to embark on writing a Season 2 of the show! So hopefully I've saved up enough factoids about myself for press tour 2.0. If not, maybe I should start workshopping some new angles now. Off to develop an opioid dependency!
'Til next time.
xx