Paul Capsis

I played, I wanted to play the Wicked Witch.

I was, you know, setting the tone for my entire career.

And I just remember the nuns laughing their heads off at me, you know, thinking I was hysterical.

But it was leaving the Catholic school that was quite difficult because then we went to a public school and the Catholic school had a lot of order and I felt protected actually by the nuns.

And also I had my cousins at the school too, and I was protected by my cousins.

They were tough girls, my older cousins.

It didn't really happen until I got to a public school.

I mean, it was there in the Catholic school.

I was already, boys were already saying, oh, you're like a girl or you speak like a girl.

And that was a negative thing.

But somehow I got through that.

But then it was when I went to the public school, then it was, I felt I didn't have any protection there except for a few really lovely teachers.

I had some beautiful teachers there.

and I had some friends and of course it was a slow

That was like a slow realisation, the thing of, you know, the first few years were fine because, you know, it's just we're all so young and we had wonderful teachers.

Miss Haskell in year seven, six or seven.

No, not six or seven.

What was it called back then?

Anyway, I can't remember.

She was really good.