Look at my beautiful body | Morgana O'Reilly
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I don't even want to say the things that my brain says to me out loud. Would you say a few of them? Oh, you're too fat, you're too old, you're too fat, you're too old. And your chin's too saggy and you're never going to work again. Oh, it's so yuck.
Mina, you are useless.
When will you ever learn? I, for whatever reason, think that my value in the world is tethered tightly to how I look. And so as the way I look changes and goes against a social opinion about youth, It's like somebody's taking money out of my bank account and there's nothing I can do about it. My value is going down. Perceived value going down. But then I guess what takes its place is your true character.
Nau mai haere mai to grey areas with me, Petra Baggist. You're in for a treat as I sit with smart and sparkly Morgana O'Reilly, star of theatre, TV and film. She's been on Neighbours, Mean Mums, The White Lotus and more. Morgana has written and performed two one-woman plays, one of which has become the incredible film Stories About My Body. Coming to cinemas this winter, 2026. Here's Morgana. Morgana O'Reilly, thank you for joining me on Grey Areas today. I am deeply appreciative of your response, your heartfelt and enthusiastic response to my just random, we've never met before, I don't know you. I mean, I get a sense that we could have a firecracker of a conversation. Yes. To be honest. Yeah. I quite feel like people listening ought to just buckle up because you never know where we're going to go.
Yeah. And I ran across you in a newspaper article.
Mm-hmm.
And I've intersected you with the Billie T. James show and Mean Mums. You've been there on screens, like, you know, coming into focus and out of focus. And then I got sent the information about your film, Stories About My Body. And I'm like, holy heck, yes.
What does Morgana O'Reilly say about her journey with body image?
Yes, yes, yes. Because as women, we, each of us, have a bloody beautiful body and And we spend, I would suggest, a lot of our time loathing it, disliking it, rejecting it, working on it, like wrestling with it, hating it.
Yeah.
And I'd love us not to do that. I know. Wouldn't that be good? Yeah. Imagine if we were all like... Oh, yummy. Look at my beautiful body that I get to move around the world in today and I get to talk to you. I mean, without this body, I couldn't even be here with you. Yeah. So I don't even know where to start. But can we start with perhaps your name, Morgana? It's very unusual.
Yeah. It's from the King Arthur stories. King Arthur's half-sister, Morgan Le Fay, a.k.a. Morgana Le Fay, a.k.a. Morgaine Le Fay, was, depending on who's telling the story, either a witch or a fairy, which is probably just a wise woman. Yeah. A bit magic. And, yeah, my parents got Morgan out of the phone book. Yeah. And I think they, as the story goes, I think they went to my great aunt. My mum told her that that's what they were thinking of calling me. And she said, Morgan, like Morgan Le Fay from the King Arthur stories. So they gave me the second name Le Fay.
Yeah, Morgana Le Fay.
Yeah.
Naomi Jane. Naomi is my grandmother's name. They were not afraid. And Jane. And then Jane, my mother's name is Mary Jane. So I guess that's a whakapapa to her. And then O'Reilly, my dad's last name. We did that thing where we got married and I didn't take his last name. We toyed for a little while with the idea of making up a last name. Like Mr. and Ms. Storyteller. Except we're
How does Morgana differentiate between conforming and adorning?
I couldn't think of any good ones, but there's enough. Okay. Yeah. And, yeah, because we made it up. We got married very quickly. Oh. Yeah. How long had you – what do you mean by quickly?
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–2:46
2
What does Morgana O'Reilly say about her journey with body image?
2:46–4:50
3
How does Morgana differentiate between conforming and adorning?
4:50–6:49
4
What role does dopamine play in women's lives according to Morgana?
6:49–9:32
5
How does Morgana describe the cycles of success and disappointment in her career?
9:32–13:00
6
What parenting insights does Morgana share in relation to life's challenges?
13:00–17:44
7
How does Morgana view aging and beauty standards in the entertainment industry?
17:44–21:11
8
What is the significance of the one-woman show 'Stories About My Body'?
21:11–1:29:02