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E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Monday, December 16, 2019 COMMUNITY COVER STORY For Mia Wasikowska, unfamiliarity breeds contempt ‘I particularly miss the floral smell of Sydney in spring,’ the Australian actress of the Alice in Wonderland fame tells Kate Kellaway ustralian actress Mia Wasikowska trained as a ballet dancer in her teens before switching careers. In A2010, she was the highest-grossing fi lm star in the world after playing the lead in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland and starring alongside Annette Bening and Julianne Moore in The Kids Are All Right. She has since starred in Jane Eyre opposite Michael Fassbender and as the writer Robyn Davidson in Tracks. Now she plays Judy in Judy and Punch, Mirrah Foulkes’s unruly, subversive, feminist take on the traditional puppet show. How was it working on Judy and Punch? It was a rough shoot. Low budget Australian fi lmmaking is full on. We had babies, dogs, horses, puppets — so many uncontrollable elements — but got through it. Melbourne weather is notoriously horrible and [meant] we were unable to drive down to the location — an artist’s estate. The cast and crew had to trudge down a very steep slope and we were stuck there for a couple of days. What is the moral of Judy and Punch? Judy gives a speech in which she says the witch might appear to be her today, but everybody lives in fear that tomorrow they might be perceived to be witches. It is a brilliant message that pinpoints the fearmongering happening here [in the UK] and in America. Was it diffi cult to get Judy’s emotional reactions across with such an economical script and You’ve just turned 30 – do you Although acting is a really awesome speedy plot? feel like laughing or crying? It was hard to get the emotional Weirdly, I feel better about job, the perception is different from content because the fi lm jumps turning 30 than I did approaching between humour and drama. But it. Twenty-eight was harder. I the reality. Unless you are able to work we thought it was very important measure my life in terms of age; I for the dramatic moments to hit, to envy people who don’t. For me it’s with the same people again, it is really be a counterpoint to absurdity. We about asking, have I stopped long lonely and a lot of upheaval wanted to make the fi lm a confl ict enough to choose to do what I’m for the audience — like the puppet doing? show itself. You’re not sure whether to laugh or cry. Your career has been pretty ‘ — Mia Wasikowska ’ Monday, December 16, 2019 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY nonstop since you gave up “It was hard ballet. Why did you jump tracks? to get the I was desperate to be a ballet dancer. I was super in love with emotional it but it became evident I’d never become a prima ballerina, I content didn’t have the right body.