- It's an incredible set. It actually exudes a personality and a depth of darkness that invades you when you're here and you're shooting.
- Everything is so beautifully thought out that it just gives you your character instantly.
- [on Wentworth]: It's not a pretty place to be. But it's an important place to be the way that its shot here on foxtel.
- It's so rare to get a chance to flex your muscles and play scenes and take yourself to places you could never have imagined you'd be capable of playing, and then come away at the end of it and say, 'I did it and I'm so proud.'"
If I can do Wentworth, I can do anything. - [on Kaz's exit from Wentworth]: There were numerous phone calls between the writers and myself, and the producers and myself, and a lot of co-creating how Kaz was going to end her time at Wentworth. I did actually feel at the end of [season] six that I'd had great storylines and I didn't want to just be around for nothing, and the writers knew, we both knew, that Kaz's time had been served.
- [Explaining her final episode of Wentworth]: I've never done a death before in my life. That morning I came in and the entire cast and crew, everywhere I walked, they'd be wanting to talk, wanting to hug me, and I'd be: 'Please don't, don't. Let me get through the day; I just have to get this done.' I'd sucked every bit of energy and light and attention and commitment I had, and was holding it in one deep breath, until I got through that scene.
- Dead silent. Any direction they had to give to anybody, they whispered to each other. The space around me was so sacred and so beautiful and so respectful. I will never forget that.
- It's been nothing but the best experience of my life. This show makes you give everything you have.
- [Discussing Wentworth]: I couldn't have done this from Sydney, I couldn't have driven to work and come home and had the detoxing and the deconstruction.This way, I get to the airport, swig a glass of wine, go to sleep and arrive [home] happier.
- [on coping with the show]: I worked out that I just had to run, I had to wake up every morning at 4.30am and run. That was all I could do. Sometimes my husband and son would FaceTime me and I'd be running and crying at the same time, still releasing yesterday's s**t
- [on Wentworth]: Seriously, that is the gift we give each other, because we hold each other in this trust.
- The more we talk about it the more we understand it's a shared syndrome if you can call it that - Wentworth Actor Syndrome.
- I mean with shows like All Saints, for me the medical dialogue is ridiculously difficult to learn but it's easy to switch on and off. With characters that have committed crime and especially in a female prison ... look, most of the women in here, they are basically good women who have done bad things ... but the amount of research I've had to do over the years on YouTube, some of the disturbing horrendous things I've had to watch and delve into, I would never want to be doing that in my home with my 12-year-old going 'what's that, mum?'.
- We need to go into therapy with each other to get through the next day and new week to deal with the content you're thrown.
- [on her character Kaz's death]: It was a really hard place to be mentally and emotionally. I really had to think of.. not seeing my loved ones again.
- [on Kaz's death discussion]: How do I want to go? They didn't say murdered or die. They just said find a way out for Kaz. You wanna escape? Die? I said you know what, how about we do a fast unexpected out.
- When you're in Wentworth, it's all in or nothing.
- Women are having a resurgence of power and I think Wentworth is a beautiful vehicle for women to celebrate every aspect of their womanhood - their ugliness, their pain, their hurt, their success, their desires and their want.
- On a daily basis we have to tear down any walls of any ego, strip ourselves back of any self-protection and show our absolute vulnerable self. We show the cast more [of ourselves] than we even show our own family members. There is an enormous amount of trust between the actors because you are showing your raw self at every level. It's exhausting.
- In Wentworth you show your true colours, no matter how much it hurts. It's a painful journey to go into some of these scenes and it lingers with you. After a long day this cast will cradle you in their arms, there are sometimes tears and that's okay. We have extra love for one another that I've never experienced on any other set I've worked on.
- We could never have done this show or level of work we bring to Wentworth if we had to come home every day. You do make sacrifices; my son Ben has watched his mum going away to jail for four years in a row now. But this job makes you raise the bar.
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