Jennifer Ludlam: Acting without makeup or shoes…

Award-winning actor Jennifer Ludlam has played a range of strong female characters in TV shows such as Cover Story, Gloss, and Undercover. She spent time in Australia appearing in a number of dramas including Prisoner and Sons and Daughters. Returning to New Zealand, Ludlam starred in Sima Urale’s feature film Apron Strings.

In this ScreenTalk, Ludlam talks about:

• Playing a country girl in a city pub in A Going Concern
• Lying about her horse-riding ability for a role in Radio Waves
• Having trouble singing and dancing in Gather Your Dreams
• Forgetting all about one of her roles in Shark in the Park
• Loving the camaraderie on the set of Prisoner
• Playing a 'toughie' on Sons and Daughters
• Being an embarrassment to Ilona Rodgers in Gloss
• Being cast as a strong and forthright woman in Cover Story
• Enjoying playing a homophobic mother in Shortland Street
• Feeling nervous in her first scene in Apron Strings
• Giving up a theatre tour for a role in The Blue Rose
• Her one last ambition in TV

This video was first uploaded on 11 March 2013, and is available under this Creative Commons licence. This licence is limited to use of ScreenTalk interview footage only and does not apply to any video content and photographs from films, television, music videos, web series and commercials used in the interview.

Interview, Camera and Editing – Andrew Whiteside