Carides is joined by Strictly Ballroom star Tara Morice in Nugget Is Dead: A Christmas Story, a seasonal tale of a dysfunctional family and their dog.
When Gia Carides was growing up in Sydney – with an English mother and a Greek father – the Christmas table was always crowded. “Our dining table was always open, it was an open door to our friends, and you had three daughters bringing home friends, boyfriends, best friends, whatever, and our table was always fun,” Carides says.Nugget Is Dead: A Christmas Story
“It’s obviously a kind of Christmas movie trope that the family is the nightmare to go back to, and I think we grow up in our family and everybody’s got their safe landing places that are in their family,” Carides says.we see three versions of a family, and the one that I am in the centre of is definitely dysfunctional and in flux because things are happening in that family. Jodie’s marriage is definitely in flux, it’s probably the best expression because it’s not quite over.
Carides credits the film’s very dry sense of humour to its writers, Zerbst and Owen. “They have blended a version of their families, and on set they would talk explicitly about different family members we’re based on ... so I know we’re all based on somebody real,” says Carides.
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