Jodi Gordon

I feel like a very small percentage of people get to have those experiences.

It sure was.

I remember the casting director grabbed me before I went in and she rubbed my makeup off my face and she pulled my hair out and she shook it up like that.

And she's like, okay, now you're ready.

You're Martha.

Yeah.

Now, she like roughed, not roughed me up like that, but just stripped me back because I think I went in trying to be this version, this funny life moment, trying to be this version of what I thought they wanted me to be.

And she's like, pull it back and then anchor yourself in your authenticity and the role will be yours.

And I remember, getting goosebumps again, I walked out of that audition and I bawled my eyes out and I called my mum and

And I said, mum, I reckon I've got that part.

And she goes, oh, she was so excited.

But she was also like, darling, like 500 people have gone for that role.

So, you know, she's trying to calm my, but there was a feeling where I think like anything great professionally and personally, you have a, I don't know, an energetic link to something that you're doing that you go, oh yeah, that's my direction.

That's my path next.

And I want that.

And I'm right where I'm meant to be.

I must say I've been reflecting on things

those moments because I remember when I won that first Logie, which was just out of this world, but only like that week before I just found out my partner had had cancer.

And it's like reflecting on the juxtaposition of life and these highs and lows and this little girl going, oh my gosh, I'm living my dreams and there's so much pain and there's

a lot of like attention and, you know, it's – I definitely – I can reflect on that time I think now because it's like over, what, 20 years ago and go, oh, you did good, kiddo.