11/13/2023 0 Comments Wentworth marta dusseldorpThere are stories that come home that were seeded in the very first episode of the first season, and to be able to have that made it feel exquisite. “The other thing that made me very happy to be involved for the final season was that the stories weren’t finished and I know that Marcia and the whole writing team really wanted that opportunity to be able to tie up so many loose ends. “It’s wonderful, but it’s wonderful on a personal level because – and I don’t say it glibly – it was an extraordinary work family,” she shares. And I think they had completed season seven, which they thought at that time was going to be the final, and then I got a phone call saying, ‘How would you like to come out of the box?’”īeing a part of Wentworth’s final-ever instalment was even more special, as it meant reigniting Joan’s cat-and-mouse game with her one-time friend-turned-nemesis Vera Bennett (Kate Atkinson). “But I went to one of our producers who I knew I could trust to give me a straight answer and I said, ‘Is there any chance this character’s going to come back?’ and she just laughed in my face: ‘No.’ So I just thought that was a wonderful few years of my life, a great work family, a wonderful opportunity, a great character to play, love youse all, bye. “It was criminal when they buried Joan Ferguson alive in a box and I know Marcia Gardner, the head of the script department, always felt that Joan’s story was not finished,” Rabe explains. In fact, you have to find a way to make them so believable and true and driven by something other than just that they’re bad.”įor Rabe – who presents a catch-up special prior to the new season called Wentworth Unlocked on August 17 – though it was unexpected, the opportunity to reprise her much-feared character following a two-season hiatus meant the absolute world to her. I completely understand and never judge my characters, because it’s not helpful. “That was my challenge: to make her compelling and sympathetic. “I love playing bad women – in fact, on stage I have before and it’s always a pleasure,” Dusseldorp admits. Likewise, getting to play the ‘baddie’ was a welcome change of pace. “We laughed together, we cried together on set, in our characters and in our scenes, and pushed each other in ways that you want to, because you trust that they have your back and vice versa. It’s the same with Susie Porter – I do a lot of scenes with her in Wentworth and we were just: boom! It was just this meeting of everything. We only had one scene together but it was so fun. “I wouldn’t have done the show if I wasn’t a fan, if I didn’t love it,” she insists. Getting to work with her friends was simply the icing on the cake. Still, as a self-confessed fan of Wentworth prior to signing on as Sheila, Dusseldorp wouldn’t have had it any other way. And she had some extraordinary things to do. “So it was a pressure cooker, but she was a trooper. “It was a mad rush, because her scenes were to be completed and we thought we would have one more day of shooting… but we got a call saying don’t come in, the country was being stood down. “Marta’s character arrived just as the world was crashing into the pandemic and there were a lot of distractions and concerns and anxiety, so to have an actor of her stature and skill and professionalism and strength enter the space was another thing to help keep us focused,” Rabe enthuses. While Dusseldorp was thrown into the slammer in season eight, part one’s penultimate episode as True Path cult leader Sheila Bausch, Rabe – who joined in season two as Joan ‘The Freak’ Ferguson – was brought back from the dead during season seven’s finale, before finding herself incarcerated again midway through season eight. Having worked together many times in the years since meeting in 1996 on the set of Australian film Paradise Road, last year saw long-time friends Pamela Rabe and Marta Dusseldorp reunite on the small screen as inmates in FOXTEL Original prison drama Wentworth.
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