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THE GIRL Who PLAYED Interview A Slug here please ITA BUTTROSE AND Asher Keddie are at dinner in a small chic restaurant in Sydney’s Surry Hills, a week before filming is due to begin on the ABC mini- series, Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo. Asher is … how shall we put it? Perspiring. And not just because the night is steamy. Next to her is one of the most famous women in the country, the S woman she’s about to try and embody on the screen as a 30-year-old magazine editor launching the ground-breaking magazine, Cleo, in 1972. It’s only the second time the two have From Ita’s lisp to met and Asher – never one to be easily intimidated – is suddenly aware that Blanche’s vulnerability, her every movement and expression is Asher Keddie has made being scrutinised. “Will you stop that?” Ita commands. celebrity roles her own. “What?” the actor replies. Yet there’s more to “You’re sitting like me.” this versatile actress “No, I’m not.” OROTON BELT. H than mere mimicry, as AND “Yes, you are.” And then they both burst out laughing, David Leser discovers. to the blessed relief of everyone else at the table. Here – for the student of characterisation and sub-plot – is a delicious example of the observed (Ita) Away from the limelight, observing the observer (Asher) and THE Asher Keddie loves both observer and observed approving nothing better than of what they see. spending time with her “Her hands were imitating where mine GIRL horses on the property E she shares with her were – on the side of my face or under husband in Victoria’s my chin,” Ita happily recalls to The Macedon Ranges. Weekly now (a magazine she, herself, WHO edited in the mid-1970s), “and I have never seen anyone doing that before.” (If truth be known, Asher Keddie’s been PLAYED doing it since she was a child.) Yet whether these things are already part of an actor’s make-up, it obviously ➤ ITA PHOTOGRAPHY BY GRANT MATTHEWS. STYLING JUDITH COOK AND OLIVIA FLEMING. HAIR KENNETH STODDART. MAKE-UP BY LINDA JEFFERYES. ASHER WEARS RALPH LAUREN COAT, HOSS INTROPIA JUMPER FROM CHRISTENSEN COPENHAGEN, MORRISON SKIRT, TONY WHITE EARRINGS 1 AWW.COM.AU SEPTEMBER 2011 R SEPTEMBER 2011 AWW.COM.AU 2 Slug here please enough to be able to say you’ve taken on Asher wowed audiences as writer Blanche the hue and colour of one of Australia’s d’Alpuget in the 2010 telemovie Hawke (below) and more recently as Ita Buttrose most noteworthy – and formidable in Paper Giants: The Birth Of Cleo (right). – women during a calendar year. Yet Asher Keddie has managed to do much more than that these past 12 months. In July 2010, she appeared as writer Blanche d’Alpuget in the controversial telemovie, Hawke, and, once again, managed to realise both the strength and vulnerability of the former prime minister’s mistress-turned-second-wife. In the process, she won an AFI nomination for the role. For Asher, it was one of her hardest roles to date. “She’s such an enigma in a way,” Asher says. “I mean, we know what we know of Blanche through the press and I’m not saying that’s right or wrong … but it’s really pretty one-sided. So, really long stride and Ita has quite a for me as an actor, trying to delve into a short, brisk style, so I loved walking personality … that wasn’t easy because like her. Her walk is just so buoyant. the public perception is truly one-sided. She’s so buoyant.” “She asked me a lot of questions, And then, of course, there was the lisp, which I appreciated, because she which, thankfully, Asher kept to herself wanted to get to know me. I found the night of their historic dinner. (She her [very] disarming.” hadn’t actually started practising it yet!) And like Ita, Blanche was pleased takes a certain kind of skill – and It was only when filming began that with the result. “Yes, she [Blanche] chutzpah – to play a living, breathing, she took it on with gusto, never letting was happy,” Asher admits. “She sent household name like Ita Buttrose. it go – before work, during work or me a note and congratulated me and And for those who witnessed Asher after work. thanked me for showing a side of her Keddie do it earlier this year, they “As soon as she walked through the that perhaps not many people knew. would know she managed to pull it door you could tell that something was And I really did try to do that. I tried off consummately, right down to the different,” her husband, musician-actor to absorb her thoughts through her famous lisp, winning the praise of the Jay Bowen, tells The Weekly. “She was writing. I tried to be true to the way person who mattered most. sort of holding her body differently, she felt about Bob, and she did explain “I rang her and told her that I holding her face differently. The walk to me [beforehand, during a one-hour really liked her performance,” Ita says. was different and I knew straightaway Skype conversation] how she felt. “I thanked her for looking after my she was still in the middle of playing Ita.” “And you know, of course, a lot of reputation so well as an editor, and Asher insists it wasn’t a choice. It’s it is private and I will never speak to as a woman. the way she always tries to inhabit her anyone about it, because it is sacred – “She obviously observed me really characters. “It was a big thing for me to as my conversations with Ita will well. She had the intonation and the take on,” she says with an unmistakeable remain private as well. But Blanche voice. It sounded like me and it looked lisp. “I kept the voice right in the front was very open and I found her to be TONY WHITE EARRINGS. TONY WHITE EARRINGS. like me, but it wasn’t me.” of my face the whole way through.” very courageous in that way.” AND So well did Asher absorb the flesh Are you lisping now, I ask, a little If that were not enough for an and blood of Ita Buttrose that Ita incredulously. “I have always had a slight already productive year, the 37-year-old found herself one day believing she sibilant ‘s’,” she replies, her green cat’s Victorian also found herself cast as the was actually imitating the actor. eyes sparkling, “and when I’m trying to delightfully kooky obstetrician, Nina “I am walking along and thinking, ‘I’m explain something to someone, it can Proudman, in the Network Ten comedy- walking like Asher Keddie’, but then I be a little more pronounced.” drama series, Offspring. For this role, thought, ‘No, I’m not, I’m walking like she won her first Logie as Australia’s me,’” she says chortling at the thought. ******* most popular female actor. (She has “How funny is that?” Asher says, FOR A FEMALE actor looking for been nominated six times as “most when told this comment. “I have a challenging roles, it’s probably triumph outstanding actress”.) ➤ PHOTOGRAPHY BY GRANT MATTHEWS. SIMON CARDWELL. ASHER WEARS KATE SYLVESTER TOP AND BRA, THOMAS COOK JODHPURS 3 AWW.COM.AU SEPTEMBER 2011 SEPTEMBER 2011 AWW.COM.AU 4 “You’ve no idea how happy I am that I’m the most loved,” she trilled when she collected her gong. “The most popular, that’s so cool. I don’t care if I’m good or not.” Don’t believe that for a minute. Asher Keddie has always cared deeply about the craft of acting – which is why she can now claim to be not only the country’s most popular female television actor, but also one of the best. Think Julia Jackson in the hit television series, Love My Way. Think journalist Jacinta Burns in Rush. Think police officer Liz Cruickshank in Underbelly: In television hit Offspring, A Tale Of Two Cities. And yes, think Asher plays Nina, a loveable Blanche, Ita and Nina. yet neurotic obstetrician with a complicated love-life “When I was writing Offspring,” and a demanding family. says Debra Oswald, the award-winning author, playwright and scriptwriter, “I had the great luxury of knowing Asher was going to play the role [of It was the first time I’d actually experienced Nina]. She’s such an intelligent, bold and truthful actor, with an emotional such extreme anxiety. It felt like terror ... availability which truly connects with the audience. Jane Asher, and her sister, Bronte, after when she appeared at the Melbourne “For a show such as Offspring, which the trio of English 19th-century sibling Arts Centre as the grief-stricken woman has a mixture of tones and storytelling writers, Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte. in J.T. Rogers’ haunting play, Madagascar. styles, Asher is amazing, because she can By Asher’s own admission, she was a The play was challenging for a number move deftly between comic, soulful, silly free-spirited – make that wilful – child, of reasons. Firstly, Asher hadn’t been on and dramatic moments. As a writer, I often given to early dramatic turns. “When stage for many years. Secondly, there feel enormously lucky to have her.” I was four years old,” she recounts, “I were only three characters, none of wanted to wear [my mother’s] beautiful whom actually communicated with each ******* wedding dress with an enormous train other – just three soliloquies running AN INTERVIEW WITH Asher Keddie down to Safeway to go shopping.
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