The ABC Of on ABC – This week on The ABC Of, David Wenham takes the photo album down from the ABC shelf to look at the life of Miranda Tapsell – actor, filmmaker and a leader of the new generation of First Nations’ creatives.
The Larrakia-Tiwi woman achieved global recognition on the Cannes red carpet with her first film, The Sapphires, and has been forging a new path for Indigenous performers ever since.
Thanks to the wealth of the ABC Archive, we see a teenaged Miranda just finishing high school become the powerful woman who started a national conversation about race on Get Krack!n. Miranda talks about her roles in iconic series like Redfern Now and Bluey.
She opens up about her experience of mixed-race families, motherhood and her story about the power of Play School will give you goosebumps.
The ABC Of is an interview series, hosted by actor David Wenham, in which a range of prominent Australians revisit their pasts through moments drawn from the vast ABC Archives. The seven featured guests, all icons of one field or another, also include: former Prime Minister Julia Gillard, cricket legend Ian Chappell, actor Jack Thompson, comedian and broadcaster Wendy Harmer, one half of Australia’s best-loved comedy duo Greig Pickhaver and feminist and intellectual Germaine Greer.
Each episode is a one-on-one conversation in which the questions are based on archival video clips. Before they sit down, the guests are unaware of the clips that have been chosen. In many cases, those clips travel past the choices you’d expect, the obvious markers of the guest’s CV, wending their way down delightful and surprising paths to footage that has not seen the light of day for decades.
The ABC Of – Tuesday 30 May, 2023 at 8:00pm on ABC and ABC iview
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