Morgana O’Reilly: From success in Housebound to the set of Neighbours…

Interview – 2016

Actor/playwright Morgana O’Reilly began her screen career performing in comedy series such as The Jaquie Brown Diaries Super City, plus comedy drama Nothing Trivial. O’Reilly starred in TV movies Safe House and Billy, and in big screen comedy horror hit Housebound. In 2014, she scored a role on long-running Australian soap Neighbours.

In this ScreenTalk, O’Reilly talks about:

Making an impression on the director of The Jaquie Brown Diaries
Feeling overwhelmed on the set of Nothing Trivial
Playing a pregnant woman for TV movie Piece of My Heart
Why not being blonde didn't stop her playing Billy T James’ wife in telefilm Billy
Being nervous about working with children while starring in Safe House
Trying to improvise on comedy Sunny Skies
Finding a connection between her character and herself in Housebound
Having a riot on set with fellow actor Rima Te Wiata
How a banana kept things interesting on the set of Neighbours

This video was first uploaded on 23 May 2016, 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

...I went for about a month there, I just tried to have a banana in as many scenes as I could. There were some scenes which would totally not call for a banana, but it was just like a fun little challenge to myself to sort of try and keep things hilarious for me. I think in the end the art department was slightly in on it.
– Morgana O'Reilly on sneaking a banana into as many scenes of Neighbours as possible

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