Episode Fifty-Nine: Rhona Rees

Episode Fifty-Nine: Rhona Rees

Sabrina Furminger
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Rhona Rees always brings the funny: as an on-camera actress; as a voice performer; as a screenwriter. She’s been in the business for more than two decades, getting her start at the age of 11 in a film with Australian screen legend Ernie Dingo. These days, she acts in screen and animation projects like Polly Pocket, Wu Assassins, and Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitsu, and she was nominated for a 2018 Leo Award and a 2019 Society of Voice Arts and Sciences Award for Littlest Pet Shop: A World of Our Own, for her work as Beverly "Bev" Gilturtle. Rhona is also the face and star of Shuttlecock, a sports mockumentary in which she plays a washed-up badminton player whose Olympic dreams are dashed when her rival smashes a shuttlecock into one of her eyes – and Freya, a dark comedy set in a near-distant future. Rhona wrote the script for Freya, which received funding from Creative BC and the venerable Harold Greenberg Fund. In this hilarious and at times emotional interview, the Australian ex-pat (who – true story – becomes a Canadian citizen during our sponsor break) talks about child stardom, what she learned shouting “cock!” in crowded theatres across North America, filming Freya, and how Canadians can help the humans and animals affected by the Australian bushfires.

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