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Why are Aussie soap actors so fame hungry?
In Neighbours and Home and away it's almost impossible to get an actor to stay in the show more than 3 years because they are determained to make it in Hollywood.
But look at the English soaps the majority of the cast young and old commit to the shows and have been their for years if not decades.
So why are Aussie actors so fame hungry, egotistic and use soaps as stepping stones just to make it big?
But look at the English soaps the majority of the cast young and old commit to the shows and have been their for years if not decades.
So why are Aussie actors so fame hungry, egotistic and use soaps as stepping stones just to make it big?
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Melissa George.
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Maybe I was wrong to say egotistical but I don't like the way they use the show as a stepping stone. Home and away is a great show but actors only use it to boost their careers.
Look at Mellisa George she is even ashamed to admit that she was once in the show.
They might aswell call Neighbours and Home and away the Hollywood green rooms for succesors and failures. :rolleyes:
Nope and fair play to you..
To be fair the oz soap stars have a better success rate in America then the British ones..
And like I said in my previous post the pay in oz soaps isn't supposed to be particularly good..
Whereas a long term stint in one the big 3 uk soaps can set somebody up for life
Thanks
Yep, you're right. Despite there being a greater number of British actors than Aussie actors in Hollywood right now, most of them have no soap background whatsoever. Which is the complete of the Aussie actors in Hollwyood, most of them have some sort of soap background. It seems working in soaps is a bit of a poison chalice for British soap actors
and these days, its all about luck!
Don't lump everyone else in with Melissa George. She's completely in another category compared with the others.
Aussie soaps should really get education funding, all the kids that run through them for training - and there are a lot now.
And this is true for both young and old - Jim from Neighbours, is villain of choice everywhere it seems.
Older cast members do stay more, glad to have a job.
Young ones, they have to try to get what they can while they can - for long term well paid careers in Australia do not exist, so the brave and pretty ones go for it.
More ordinary talents do stick around - pains some of them. Georgie Parker, Kate H& A, Harold etc.
You have to understand how very small we are, how limited.
You have much more opportunity, all around you - there is just us down here.
You also produce more dramas, more plays, probably more movies, your actors get more world exposure and more opportunities - plus better pay.
In Australia the actors in these programs aren't exactly thought of as 'stars'. Whether we like it or not, soaps in Australia are looked down on by many. They don't command the level of resepct soaps do in the UK. Also, 'Neighbours' is low rated and screens only on digital.
As others have said, the actors in these programs aren't so well paid as UK soap actors. Australian soaps are lower budgeted and costs are kept down. In a UK soap if a character's popular they appear all the time and earn the high rates of pay for all those appearances. Australian soap stars are rotated no matter what (only Georgie Parker and Ray Meagher on Home and Away ever appear in more than three episodes a week, I believe).
Also, soap acting is hard work. Lots of lines to learn and they tape at a fast rate. Plus you're sharing the spotlight with so many other actors!
I think it is understandable the actors want to move on. A few years is a long time when you're in your 20s!
Although both Alan Cumming and Anna Friel started in soaps and they haven't done too badly in Hollywood!
You'll notice if you watch a lot of TV the same actors appear in a lot of programmes over the years because there is a relatively small pool of 'talent' in Australia. I think this explains why so many Australian actors now try their luck in the much bigger US market - US television is also much more widely shown across the world giving them much more exposure and off the back of this a lot of them end up forging pretty decent careers in both TV and film.
What are the actors of Rachel, Zeke, Ringo, Declan, Bridget, Summer, Tash and Andrew upto?
Panto? Really?
Bib: The Braxtons appear in every episode!
The actress who played Rachel has recently landed a role in a US pilot ( the same show has the actress who played Lolly Allen in a lead role).
Australian soap stars do seem to have more success. Just off the top of my head I can think of a few that have had success.
Neighbours
- Adelaide Kane (Lolly Allen) - new US pilot, The Purge
- Dichen Lachman (Katya Kinski) - Dollhouse and other US shows
- Brett Tucker (I think that is the actors name -Dan Fitzgerald) - Spartacus, in an episode of Castle
- the actress who played Bree Timmins was in Hung
- Nicky Wheelan (Pepper) - Scrubs, Hall Pass
- the actor who was Frazer - No strings attached, other Us Shows
- I recently saw Michelle Ang (Lori Lee) in Greys anatomy
- Jack Scully is in an american show (Beauty and the beast?)
- Dean Geyer - Glee, terrenova
- Margot Robbie (Donna) - Pan Am, Wolf of wall street (new Scorsese film)
Not to mention Guy Pearce, Radha Mitchell, Alan Dale, even Holly Valance had some minor success
Home and Away
- Ryan Kwanten -True Blood
-Isobel Lucas - Transformers 2
Isla Fisher - Wedding Crashers, Great Gatsby
Melissa George (as others have mentioned)
There maybe more but I have never watched this show to know