Melanie Zanetti.

‘I’m up for anything’: Melanie Zanetti goes from ‘Bluey’ to the Burghart brothers with ‘Head Count’

Fans of children’s television worldwide know Melanie Zanetti as the voice of Chilli, the patient and laid-back mother in Ludo Studios’ all-conquering series Bluey.

However, it was another performance that caught the eye of Tristan Barr, producer of Jacob and Ben Burghart’s upcoming neo-Western thriller Head Count.

The Continuance Pictures co-founder was in the audience for a 2019 independent production of John Patrick Shanley’s 1984...