Dichen Lachman
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73 appearances
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1 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard Feb 2025
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I've been trying to learn an Irish one, actually, because my daughter and I have been watching Bad Sisters, and we absolutely love it. And Matilda's, like, been walking around the house saying, you know, like, all the different names on the show. And, like, sometimes, like, we'll just start trying to talk to each other in Irish accent. But I have to, like, start perfecting it.
Stop being such a bad sister. Sister. Stop being such a bad sister, you fuck. I can't swear on this, can I?
Stop being such a bad sister.
Blonded. What the fuck are you doing?
Yes. Hi, guys. Keep going.
Yes, I am. I'm sorry if I interrupted you earlier. I wasn't sure if that was the right time to step in.
Thank you. Thank you for having me. I've been enjoying listening, so...
Yeah, well, I was born in Kathmandu and moved to Australia when I was about seven years old and spent a lot of my teenage years there. And then when I was 23 years old, I moved to Los Angeles. And now I'm in London, just working my way around the world. Wow.
It is. Even Adelaide to LA is a long way.
Yes, they were. They were living in Kathmandu. Kathmandu in the 80s was not very developed. And a lot of people lived like they lived hundreds of years ago. You know, we didn't have electricity half the week. I think the only movies we had access to were Superman, Supergirl, Police Academy, and Hindi movies. Well, that's all you need. So it was like another world.
I was working in Australia and at the time there weren't a lot of opportunities there. And I knew that if I wanted to keep working, I'd have to sort of expand my horizons. And so I came to Los Angeles just like many young aspiring actors do and And it was really exciting. And I knew so little. I feel like if I knew how hard it was going to be, maybe I never would have done it.
But that naivety was very helpful.
Yeah, I think, I mean, we all go through it. It's interesting, Ben, to hear you say that because, you know, someone who doesn't know you or hasn't had the chance to speak to you about it might assume that it was an easier path or something, but it never is.
I think everyone's journey is up and down and that's what makes it so beautiful, you know, because we get to have that contrast of the rejection and the highs of the wins and everybody started somewhere.
Thank you for noticing. Yeah, I mean, to go back to the whole journey of being an actor, many years ago, I realized that so much of this business is out of our control. You know, it's not really a competition because it's just like there's just a person who's right for the part. And 99% of the time, it's not going to be you.
And it's such a frustrating thing that, I mean, we all know what that feels like to have a million no's. And I think I got to a point where I wasn't even feeling like I was being able to be creative. I guess I just decided like... okay, I can't control whether I get the job or not.
But when things started moving to taping, which I would often push for, I was like, this is my opportunity to be creative. This is my opportunity to, you know, I learned how to use a camera. I learned like a very little bit about lighting. I got the best microphones I could. And I just decided that any tape I sent out, whether I got it or not, I just, I wanted it to
be a really great quality product and represent my commitment to my work and my creativity, especially when you get something so wild like this. When I got those sides, I had absolutely no context. So it was like, what is this woman saying and why is she saying it like this? But it was an opportunity to be creative and get into my imagination.
And Max, my husband and I, we sort of do it for each other now. And I'll go handheld. I'll learn the lines for him. And we'll get the bounce boards out. And it's like we're working. It feels like we're working, which is, you know, sometimes you don't get to do that.
No, Ben and I got on a Skype call. Ben, do you remember you told me on the Skype call that Gemma was Miss Casey? Yeah, I had no idea because I hadn't read anything.
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