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Behind Closed Doors: Natalie Imbruglia
[Thu 02/04/2009 03:17:13]
In Closed for Winter, Natalie Imbruglia plays a woman still haunted by the disappearance of her sister when she was a child. She tells Simon de Bruyn about the role she calls her first dramatic performance.
Australian films always seem to hold thematic links with each other. Whether it’s two crocodile movies being released in a six-month period, or a string of films about men’s issues, not a year goes by when there aren’t two or three films that possess similar qualities.
With that in mind, 2009 may well be the year of the adaptation. The new feature from writer/director James Bogle, Closed for Winter, is adapted from the Georgia Blain novel of the same name. Like Last Ride, the feature adaptation of the novel by Denise Young, and Mao’s Last Dancer, which are both due later this year.
Closed for Winter was optioned by Rosemary Blight and Ben Grant of Goalpost Pictures Australia, who invited Bogle on board to write and direct. The three had collaborated previously, on the Lockie Leonard series and feature film In the Winter Dark - which were both literary adaptations themselves, based on Tim Winton books.
Perhaps it was this long-term relationship that allowed them to take a big risk, casting performer Natalie Imbruglia in the lead role of Elise, a woman still trying to overcome her sister’s disappearance as a child. Despite starting her career as an actress and demonstrating versatility in her musical career, Imbruglia doesn’t seem like an obvious choice to portray a woman haunted by grief and landlocked in life.
Aside from the melodrama of music videos and playing straight to Rowan Atkinson’s funny in 2003 spy comedy Johnny English, the singer’s last dramatic performance was also her first, as Beth Willis on Neighbours. And she doesn’t even consider that to be anything other than a technical lesson.
“I feel like it’s the start for me. I don’t really feel like I’ve done drama before as what I did on TV is such a long time ago. I think it did give me a technical lesson so I have an understanding of the process. But I don’t feel that I’ve been acting, or can relate that experience to my acting now,” she says.
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