- I've realised I've got some of her fierceness. I'm fiercely loyal as well and I realise I could go nutso if a family member of friend was threatened. And the bogan in her stays out sometimes.
- I now find myself in real life thinking 'what would Boomer do?', and having to make sure I do the opposite.
- I think they respond to the four stock things Boomer responds to: loyalty, love, patience and attention.
- [Talking about Wentworth Season 7] And I had goosebumps on my arms, which hadn't happened for a long time.
- I got goosebumps when I learnt what happens.
- For a while, it looked like the show wasn't going to continue, and I struggled to process it,
- Then we got told it would continue, it meant so much to us.
- I absolutely love this show and my character. Boomer is a very complex character, and there's lots of room to move with her. This has truly been a phenomenal experience.
- [on working on the SeaChange reboot]: Siggy said she was vocal, bless her, but I've been in orbit with Deb and Fiona about other things. We've chatted a bit about stuff. They asked me to put an audition so I sent in a tape.
- I often wondered about where she fits, tonally, and I try traverse both. In the first 4 episode she carries a lot of emotion. I chucked in a few moments too," she continues. It's hard because you want to go gangbusters, but I can't with her. She has to be more grounded, particularly in scenes with Lil. Lil's a go-getter who think she's ready to take on the big guns.
- I feel like Anna knows what's going on before other people do. She reads the landscape instinctively. She also has a softer voice. Like Boomer she's very maternal, but she doesn't wear her heart on her sleeve. She's emotional but not in a way of letting it all hang out. She has more filters
- Anna's pretty chilled and laid back as opposed to Lil, her sidekick, who is pretty uptight. She seeks comfort and she has a backstory that we don't really go into, having come from the city and garnered awards for bravery. But stuff happened and she found herself 10 years ago in Pearl Bay where she started a new life.
- I loved the codas at the end with Kevin Harrington and his boy. They always had something you could learn from at the end. Some comment, at large. I'd wait for it every time.
- Yeah. She needs to find the confidence to put her mother in her place. The reason Boomer is where she is stems from how she was brought up; the lack of care she was given. But I think she's reluctant to resent her mother at the moment. She'll always love her, always.
- It was really daunting! Boomer didn't know how she was going to be on the outside. I think it was a crazy experience for her. She was so hopeful that things were going to be okay - but of course they were not.
- [on Boomer her Wentworth character]; You know, I don't know that Boomer ever really wanted to get out. When I first started on Wentworth I did quite a bit of research and I spoke to a criminal psychologist who worked a lot in the prison system, and they call it the 'Triple Bs': Bed, Board and Bills. Some people will go back to prison because they get the fundamental things they can't actually scrape together on the outside. They love the structure and the camaraderie, and the rules: there's a Top Dog, you know your place. Boomer's one of those people. Whether she realises it or not, this is where she feels in her own skin. She is different on the outside; she's not as confident.
- [on Wentworth's seventh season]:The season on air now nearly killed me. I felt emotionally wrecked. I feel like I'm just coming out of it now. I had to make some changes - I ate better and started exercising more, and that really helped!
- The good thing about Boomer is how much she's grown over the years. She has started to mature, and it throws me sometimes because of the choices that I'm forced to make in scenes: I think, 'I could've gone absolutely nuts there, but that's not where she's at now.' She's started to really hone what she wants from life, and she'll pursue it. This is ridiculous, but I feel really proud of her.
- I love her so much. She breaks my heart. I fight for her a lot - unfortunately for the writers, I'm such a pain in the arse. Because I believe in her and I believe I know her so well. I've had to be her protector for so long. She takes her toll on me as well. I've started to notice little things over the years where I lose my Katrina voice at home and start to use my Boomer voice. And it takes a toll with what she's seen and what she's a victim of. I'll miss her. But I'll also probably be happy at some point to put her to bed.
- I remember having to really pull myself away from any banter on set and isolate myself, so I could maintain what I had going on. I used to approach scripts thinking, 'What would Katrina do? OK, now do the opposite.' And just observing certain people that I thought she embodied, and trying to understand and have compassion for where that came from. The weird thing is it feels very second nature now, and I go, 'Oh God, why doesn't it feel hard anymore? Am I doing something wrong, or is she just so blended in with me now?
- I think I'm more afraid that I will never work again. When I was younger I would say yes to a whole lot of stuff because I thought I need to have this experience and I need to be out there. As I get older I'm more aware of time on this earth and I think: I've done her, I don't really want to do that again. I would love to have the opportunity to stretch myself in other ways.
- Bloody terrifying. It is a sad thought. I'm trying not to think about. It feels so big - it's eight years of my life, and so much has happened in that eight years. I never pictured that happening: I could never have said when we started that, oh yes, in eight years we'll be in the middle of a pandemic, kissing eight years of your life goodbye and saying goodbye to these amazing people and stories and the character you love so much.
- I said, what happens if Boomer falls in love with the man that Maxine was? What if they find a way to forge some sort of connection? That began the whole storyline of Maxine and Boomer wanting a baby.
- In a nutshell I think what you see this season is a different Boomer. You see glimpses early on, but because of everything over the eight years that she's been through, you see her make different choices and she chooses happiness. So I'll just say that and you can wait and see if that works out for her.
- You grab any little bit of control that you can and that was my opportunity. So when it came to negotiating, I said, 'Yes I'll come back, but only if I'm made main cast.' But there was no fight there. They were so lovely.
- Unlike the other main cast, I wasn't contracted for a certain amount of seasons. I was contracted for season to season. So when the first season came to an end I said to my agent, 'I think I need to make this more secure for me and I have to be ready to walk away if this doesn't go my way.
- [Katrina on Season 1 of Wentworth]; I had dialogue, but none of the stories were cantered around me. I was always just tagging along with Franky (Nicole da Silva) but I was contracted for every episode.
- I'd done Stingers for a couple of years and Kevin cast me in that as well. He allowed me to fully embrace whatever I wanted to do with the character within the boundaries of the scene, obviously. But I didn't want to be floating around in the background. I thought it was such a rich world, and I had an opportunity.
- Jacquie Brennan (Linda Miles) was reading opposite me and I did this scene and she was clutching at her ear, saying 'You were screaming in my ear!' I just got so lost in the moment. But I got the role.
- I got the character breakdown and it was something like 'Boomer is Franky's muscle. She's built like a brick shithouse and not the sharpest tool in the shed.' And that was kind of it.
- Kevin said 'Don't wear any makeup. Rough yourself up and when you come in just give it everything you got
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