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Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.
Radha Mitchell -
To be honest, it's easier for me to speak with an American accent.
Radha Mitchell
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But I'm also a vegetarian so there's another factor I guess.
Radha Mitchell -
I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
Radha Mitchell -
I don't smoke and I don't drink alcohol.
Radha Mitchell -
So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.
Radha Mitchell -
I never wanted to be a movie star.
Radha Mitchell -
I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.
Radha Mitchell
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I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood.
Radha Mitchell -
Well, obviously I was excited by the idea that Woody Allen was going to direct it. But at the same time, the script itself and the character was really interesting.
Radha Mitchell -
So wearing a corset certainly changes your state of mind.
Radha Mitchell -
I'd definitely rather be rich than famous.
Radha Mitchell -
I had a friend, and we always used to pretend to be twins. We had this fantasy about going to Hollywood together. We were about four.
Radha Mitchell -
I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.
Radha Mitchell
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Revenge is a way of life and definitely some thing that we identify with. We all feel cheated in some way about some thing and how nice it would be to do something about it. I mean ultimately it's not the most Christian of sentiments.
Radha Mitchell -
I guess when I first started speaking with an American accent, there's a tendency to create a caricature of the accent because you just exaggerate the pieces that stand out to you.
Radha Mitchell -
I mean normally you have your agent call the other agent and all the agents talk and then finally you get a phone call and you hear some misrepresentation of what someone else had to say.
Radha Mitchell -
It was kind of scary because working with Woody Allen becomes sort of a big deal in your mind. He directs in that Woody Allen character some of the time - he has these idiosyncrasies that are really charming and funny.
Radha Mitchell -
After that, I was offered lots of lesbian roles, but I didn't want them because I'd already played the best there was.
Radha Mitchell -
We don't relate to her too much because you don't want the heroic character to not be heroic.
Radha Mitchell
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For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian.
Radha Mitchell -
But in this case, he had my cell phone and my phone was ringing and I had just come back from Australia on the plane and I thought it was my mum and it was Woody Allen just checking to see if I wanted to be in his movie.
Radha Mitchell -
We've become much more casual and much more relaxed in social interactions, where there was a formality and maybe a kind of respect at that time that doesn't exist now.
Radha Mitchell -
I do, too, most recently while I was singing karaoke in some weird bar.
Radha Mitchell