Heather Mitchell

I think maybe we went with the school.

Anyway, it was this star-packed cast like Steve Bisley, Ruth Cracknell, I think it was Genevieve Pico, Heather Mitchell.

Amazing now to look back.

Of course, I didn't know who any of these people were at the time.

I saw your play RBG about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, which was amazing and did incredibly well.

And when you – and start Heather Mitchell.

Yeah, beautiful Heather.

When you write a play, do you have a specific actor in mind? I did for that one.

And the Logie goes to beautiful Sam Neill.

A second award for Sam Neill is dear friend and colleague Heather Mitchell.

Hello everyone.

I'm so sorry I'm not Sam.

Like, it is a wealth of incredible Australian talent appearing.

Heather Mitchell is in it.

It's a limited series.

It's only a six-episode run.

Wow.

And a really interesting premise, without giving too much away.

A woman, Heather Mitchell, meets Hugo Weaving's very charismatic husband.

you know, life of the party kind of character, who turns out is the husband of Georgie Parker and determines she's got to go to an event and she needs a partner.

It has got, how's this? Ready? Listen.

It's got Heather Mitchell, Hugo Weavey, Georgie Parker, David Wenham, wayne blair carolyn all these great australian actors has it started yeah i think it's just come i think it's just started

do you know what the only one i added that i don't like i just don't like david when he gives me the heebie-jeebies

oh really oh actually you can get it on but he plays heebie-jeebie people Yes, he does.

So this show has Hugo Weaving in it.

It has Heather Mitchell in it.

It has Georgie Parker in it.

It's stacked cast of Aussies.

Um, he is just getting better and better as an actor, I reckon.

And as soon as I saw the ads for a new show that's up on Paramount+ featuring Heather Mitchell and Hugo Weaving, I'm like, "Take all my time and money.

I will watch that.

I will watch the hell out of that." And I am right into it now, and it is...

This is Dalliance.

Yeah, it's called Dalliance.

I won't say too much about how the story unfolds, but Hugo Weaving meets Heather Mitchell at an event that she's catering on a boat.

She's a caterer.

Well, you may have recognised some of the voices in that trailer.

Hugo Weaving, David Wenham's in there, Heather Mitchell, Georgie Parker, Catherine McClements, Wayne Blair.

It's kind of a who's who of Australian television, isn't it?

It's an incredible cast and it also does something that we've been seeing a little bit of recently with Australian creators, you know.

So this is essentially...

The brainchild and the person that got this movie is Heather Mitchell.

It was made for Heather Mitchell, with Heather Mitchell.

And what she's done too in the casting is not only do we have these luminaries of which you just mentioned, but there's quite a few actors that if you're on the theatre scene in Australia, you'll know have spent a lot of time there that are getting perhaps their first big role in television movies.

Well, it's

huge because it's got Hugo, it's got David Wenham, Georgie Parker, Catherine McClements, Heather Mitchell, who I loved in A Place to Call Home, beautifully filmed in Sydney.

It's a little six-episode series.

I would describe it, Secret Life of Us was a huge show here.