Skip to main content
Michelle de Swarte

Michelle de Swarte

Actress and comedian

Sep 20, 2026

34:03
And
34:03
depending on your age and stuff.
34:05
But I think for me, at that point, I knew it was good for me to do something I had so much just arse kissing from modelling and I knew it weren't a thing.
34:17
I was like, this isn't real.
34:19
It's just because people want to be around nice things.
34:23
Whether it be a car, a pair of trainers, a Fabergé egg, a vase or a pretty face.
34:31
People like looking at nice things.

16 MINS LATER

50:25
What I
51:29
Do you know what
51:30
I don't understand? Bruv, you're getting big hints here and you're just like, yeah, it's really weird.
51:35
I was out with my girl and I tried to get two slices of pizza and I came back with nothing and then I just went off about it.
51:41
And then you're like, yeah, my girl said the other night, I wonder what you'd look like if you dressed nice.
51:45
Bruv! You're in the danger zone and you don't understand.
51:47
And this is why men are fucking dumb sometimes.
51:50
Because there'll be all of these little clues and then they'll just sit down with you and be like, she left.

11 MINS LATER

62:45
Have you got anything you'd like to plug, Michelle?
32:41
The Duchess, right?
32:41
Yeah, The Duchess with Kathryn Ryan.
32:44
And so how I got that job is I had made a short film, and I, I'd self-funded it, produced it myself, and, um, I was really broke at the time, but I had, I had, I think I had, like, three grand, and I was like, "I'm gonna use one of these grands to make this film, and I'm gonna call in every favor, and I'm gonna just write a little scene, uh, between me and a friend, and I'm gonna, and I'm gonna film it." And I remember filming it, and I just really feeling like I don't know what I'm do- I obviously I didn't film it.
33:14
Daryl Dyer, um, he, uh, the director, he was an old friend of mine, he directed it.
33:21
Um, another, uh, person that I work with, Henry, uh, who I'd worked with on Vice, and he's, like, really good, um, with factual content, is a great DOP, he recorded.
33:30
And I just asked in a bunch of favors, and when we got to the edit of that, I was like, "This is a pile of shit.
33:37
This is, I don't think this is good at all." And I just kept on telling myself, "You have to finish it.

9 MINS LATER

42:44
Okay.

We value your privacy

We use cookies to understand how you use our platform and to improve your experience. Click “Accept All” to consent, or “Decline non-essential” to opt out of non-essential cookies. Read our Privacy Policy.