OUR STRAIGHT MATES BY MATTHEW MYERS BEST SCREW YET! On-set erections, Streisand on his Harley, drag shows… ’s Robbie Magasiva is delightfully more complicated than we knew!

DNA: Wentworth has been a massive success. What’s the secret? Robbie Magasiva: I put it down to Foxtel and Fremantle allowing Marcia Gardner and her writers to produce what they’ve wanted. Also, with the casting, they looked outside of the box rather than casting the usual actors. And the calibre of actors is just outstanding: , , Leah Purcell… the list goes on. Your character, officer Will Jackson, has certainly had his dramas. Do you find the role challenging? This sort of work gets my blood pumping. I take great pride in the role. Wentworth has given me everything I could ever want as an actor. It’s challenging emotionally and physically, which is what you want. I love the process. Other actors would kill for the role. Hell, yeah! It’s the same with the women’s roles. Most of the female actors in Australia are busting for a Wentworth audition.

Will Jackson and Jake should definitely get it on!

Where is Will headed this season? I don’t want to give anything away. Episode one of season one, his wife was dead, and it’s been guilt and every other emotion since. I hope he finds happiness this season. What’s it like working with Bernard Curry, who plays Jake, and is also a DNA Straight Mate? It’s wonderful having Bernard and all his energy around. He’s very talented and giving when we’re on set and he’s also funny as hell. After Aaron Jeffery left we were the only male cast but we’ve now got David de Lautour playing the new doctor – another Kiwi! Do you get the whole man-in-uniform sex appeal thing?

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I glimpsed it in An Officer And A Gentleman and Christmas lunch. I was asked to play Santa and Top Gun but I’ve never really understood the said I’d rather play Mrs Claus! So our make-up whole sense of it. When my girlfriend Natalie artist did me up as Mrs Claus and I sang Mariah first saw me in my Wentworth costume she Carey’s All I Want For Christmas as I gave out said, “You know the man-in-uniform thing? It the presents. So that became a thing and now doesn’t work on you, Babe.” [Laughs] the crew ask me, “What are you going to do this It works on Vera… and Jake! When are Will year?” Each year I’m a different diva! and Jake going to get together? Who’s your diva? [Laughs] When Jake first came into the show Streisand. My favourite is Guilty with Barry that’s what everyone was saying! “Oh my God, Gibb. In fact, Kate Atkinson, who plays Will Jackson and Jake should definitely get it on!” Governor Vera Bennett, came to see me a few Have you ever played a gay role? months back in New Zealand. I have a big I did a play where my character took revenge on Harley, she was on the back, I put on my playlist his family by having sex with his stepmother, and Guilty comes on. She lost her shit! And stepbrother and stepsister. I was the brother. you should’ve seen the faces on the people as I It was called My Name Is Gary Cooper and was pulled up at the lights! written by my gay friend. Have you ever had an on-set wardrobe Do you have a best gay mate? malfunction? I do. He’s the guy who wrote the play I just Not so much a malfunction… but it was during mentioned. His name is Victor Rodger and he’s a sex scene in a film called Stick Me. It opens been writing stuff for me for a long time. I’m with the other actors playing pool while I’m going to take him a copy of the latest DNA. having sex with one of the girls. It was my first This month is our wedding edition. Have you ever sex scene and I was very nervous. The girl been to a gay wedding? had to put her hand slowly into my undies and DNA: If you were gay, who would Yes. Kate Saunders, who’s in charge of our then… well, things started to happen down you be hot for? art department, married her long-term there! It went “boink” just as they said cut. By Robbie Magasiva: Eric Bana (above). partner, Kath last year down on the beach in that stage it had gone up. I stood up with a huge I like them tall and handsome. I can’t Williamstown. It was wonderful. erection and the boom operator gave me a have someone small. I’d squash Have your gay mates taken you to gay clubs? double take. them! I also like Cliff Curtis back Yes, there’s a gay bar back home in Auckland At the beach, boardshorts or budgie home in New Zealand. Here’s a funny called Family. My friend Harry took me there. smugglers? thing – I once told my friend Victor He said, “Stay by my side!” I’m like, “Why?” Boardies! You Aussies love your budgies! that if I were gay I’d do him but, And he’s, “Seriously, stay by my side!” I soon You guys would have Kiwi smugglers? when we had the same conversation discovered why! [Laughs] [Laughs] I’m boardies all the way. But, if my a few years later, he said he wasn’t You have a Samoan heritage. How would you girlfriend and I have the beach to ourselves, we interested any more. He’d moved on! say Straight Mate in Samoan? go naked. Uso Sao. Briefs, fitted boxers or free-balling? What’s the campest song you’ll dance to? Briefs! They’re more comfortable and hold Would you believe, every season I do a drag everything together. But, in fact, I hate undies MORE: Wentworth returns to Foxtel Showcase, queen act on set? It started off in season one altogether. I can’t sleep in undies or T-shirt. I on May 28. when we were giving out presents at our sleep naked.

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