Broome-raised actor Claire van der Boom says she misses her house State for its “world-class” seashores and rejuvenating environment, a sense that’s absent from her busy metropolis life in Sydney.
The 39-year-old is gearing up for the discharge of her new movie The Appleton Ladies’ Potato Race, which premieres on July 26. When requested about rising up in WA, the actress expressed her love for household, buddies and the beautiful pure setting.
“I grew up in Broome and I was there (in May) visiting family, it always recharges my batteries, I feel it’s really important to go home at least once a year,” she says.
“I miss the beaches, the old friends, heading to Rottnest — which is the equivalent of going to some beautiful Italian coastal island, it’s world-class in its beauty.
“I feel rejuvenated when I go home.”
After graduating from Presbyterian Ladies’ College, the budding actress went on to review on the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney.
After residing within the US for the previous 13 years, van der Boom relocated to Sydney originally of the COVID pandemic.
“I have deep and precious friendships in Perth, I’m still very connected to it, it’s a place I feel my heart is warmed,” she says.
Another pleased place for van der Boom was her time on set of The Appleton Ladies’ Potato Race, surrounded by actors that had been her position fashions for a few years.
The movie, primarily based on a real story, follows van der Boom because the lead character Penny, who returns to her childhood house simply in time for the Appleton Show and its “world famous” potato race.
She is outraged to study the boys’s first prize pays $2000 whereas the profitable lady’s prize is just $200, unleashing a cultural conflict like nothing the small nation city has seen earlier than.
“I thought the script was very succinct, funny and moving … Penny is a vivacious character, she puts up a good fight which is always fun to play and she comes up against a lot of brick walls, so how she copes with that is both heartwarming and amusing,” van der Boom says.
The screenplay is written by playwright Melanie Tait after she returned to her spud-growing city of Robertson within the Southern Highlands of New South Wales in 2018 and have become conscious of the pay discrepancy within the city’s personal race.
“When I received the script to audition I didn’t realise it had been her personal fight, she’d gone back and upset the community by putting a spotlight on them and questioning the gender parity for the race, it was new to me and I thought ‘good on her’, it’s an important story to be telling,” the actress says.
“It’s about standing up for what you believe is right, but doing it with as much compassion as possible and with an open heart.”
When requested if she would strive her recreation at an precise potato race — in contrast to her character Penny — van der Boom embraced the chance.
“Sure, I’d give it a go, I’d have to stretch and train and need an ice bath afterwards,” she jokes.
With the solid additionally starring Katie Wall, Genevieve Lemon, Tiriel Mora, Robyn Nevin and Andy Ryan, van der Boom admitted there have been many comedic moments by which she needed to maintain again laughter to get by way of a scene.
“Andy was very amusing, he had some tongue twisters he kept mucking up, of course I got the giggles and was trying not upset a huge take, there were a few clowns I worked with on this set …” she laughs.
Van der Boom first grew to become recognized to Aussie audiences for her roles in TV sequence Love My Way and East West 101.
Internationally, she is greatest recognized for her look as Stella Karamanlis within the HBO miniseries The Pacific, and her recurring position enjoying the ex-wife of Detective Danny Williams within the 2010 remake of Hawaii Five-O.
Last yr, van der Boom labored alongside one of many business’s best actors, Liam Neeson, in Blacklight.
“He was funny, kind, very open and warm, I adored working with him, it was very easy and I didn’t feel he was some mega star, he was just Liam,” she says.
With no work “on the horizon right now”, van der Boom is “back in the rat-race”.
“I’d like to keep working across theatre as well as film and TV, there’s some great roles in theatre I dream of playing but I’m open to it all.”
Watch The Appleton Ladies’ Potato Race on Ten and 10 Play, Wednesday July 26 at 7.30pm or stream on Paramount+ from Thursday July 27.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
