The beloved actor and producer on ditching Hollywood, facing death, and the thing she’s most proud of
Australian actor and producer Claudia Karvan near the Glebe foreshore, where she spent the past five years filming TV series Bump. Photograph: Jessica Hromas/The Guardian
The actor lives a couple of suburbs away but this strip of the Glebe foreshore, across the bay from the Anzac Bridge, has been her second home for the past five years. As co-creator, producer and co-star of the, she spent hours here scouting for locations and filming with the multilingual, multigenerational cast. Karvan plays Angie, the mother of studious high school student Oly, whose surprise pregnancy brings an Anglo Australian and South American family together.
“ generally not bothered because a lot of people can’t work out where they know me from, so they think I’m just a very close friend, and that’s pretty nice,” she grins.But at some point, more fame was on the cards. “I remember reading an action movie and going ‘I’d never go for that’. I don’t think that was an attitude that a 20-year-old was encouraged to have,” she says.
set her own ground rules. For one, her Bump character is now in a same-sex relationship. Karvan is done with intimate scenes with men.They were “all lovely”, however, she says.
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