"Now, have you ever wanted to get to know the cast of Home and Away a little better?" "Well, you're in luck." "So get comfy because coming your way right now we'll chat to some of the guys to find out exactly what makes them tick." "MAN:" "Right now, it's showtime!" "( Pounding Music )" " Take one." " And action." "I like it - it's a nice way to start the day having your face quietly massaged and all that." "I'm trying to get the sound people to warm their hands up before this but..." "In the morning it's a bit difficult." "Mark, can you see that I'm wearing, um, blue underwear?" "81." "Take one." "Yeah, I do like my character because there's no..." "You don't know where she's going to go so my emotions can go anywhere and they'll accept that." "Get back in the distance!" "The thing, actually that I love about Kirsty is Kirsty changes all the time." "So I never get boring with playing her because there's always something new coming along and there's always somebody else coming into the picture." "There's always somewhere to go with it." "Yeah, I remember the first scene." "It was with Kirsty, my sister, and the two boys that we were going to end up going out with." "And it was sort of just a cute little girly scene with guys." "Yeah, it was fun." "Yeah, I remember because you get in that studio sometimes and you've got three cameras and all these lights." "And I felt a bit like a rabbit stuck in the headlights at first." " It was a bit like, "Whoa. "" " The first scene that I ever had, um..." "I had a dog collar on and I had very curly hair." "And I came into the ravan park and it was with my boyfriend at the time and" "I was a big rebel." "And I walked into the shot and he pulls me around to the back of the caravan and kisses me." "On my first day I arrived, rehearsing a few scenes..." "I walked in the room and there was Ray and Norman rehearsing a scene." "Of course, I hadn't been on the show yet and I'm going," ""There's Ray Meagher and Norman Coburn." ""They're been here for a while." "They're pretty famous."" "And they were giggling their heads off." "I thought to myself, "Well, if they're giggling after 15 years, this is gonna be OK."" "I think that something I've learnt about myself doing Home and Away is that I have the capability to work under pressure." "I think something you need to be able to do is to be strong enough to just go with the flow." "Getting to learn about the..." "the behind the scenes, the mechanics of how a show is actually made." "It's just been a huge life experience for me being on Home and Away." "It's just elevated me into a different life." "It's a completely different world." "I try to motivate myself by putting myself in the situation." "So if my boyfriend..." "fake boyfriend's there," "I try to think of my boyfriend, like we're fighting or a family situation." "I always put myself in situations in my own life." "I talk to the other actor about what the scene's about." "And then just sort of..." "just gotta go on just jump off and do it, I think." "Like, can't worry about it too much." "Gotta jump in there and, yeah, give it a go." "I find you've really got to give yourself some good time before the scene to just sit down, sort of, kind of meditate for a while and just let your let everything flush through your brain and then bring up the feelings" "you want to have in..." "into the moment." "I'm a very boring person." "When I want to unwind after work," "I just go home, I just sit around." "I..." "I'll go to sleep really early." "I'll be in bed by 8:00." "I'm happy to be in bed at 8:00 on Friday night." "Or listen to some music or read a book." "Things like that." "Just relaxing, watching TV and just chilling." "And just spending time with people because you don't get to spend much time" " with the people outside of work." " Surfing, um..." "Just going for a coffee down at the beach." "I live near Bronte Beach so I enjoy that." "And reading." "I unwind by reading books, by, um, going for runs." "I love to walk as well." "Um, doing a bit of yoga." "I'd really like to, sort of, get involved in other things, other productions." "I don't know, hopefully, fingers crossed, I can still continue to act." "I really..." "I'd love to be a cameraman but hopefully my acting career will keep pushing on that I won't have to go into that side for a while." "Just hopefully getting together some of my own projects and writing some stuff and then directing some short films." "And hopefully making a film at some point, yeah." "At this stage I don't know - you never do." "I'll be here for a while longer yet." "But have recently developed an interest in teaching English to students of other languages." "I'm looking into that at the moment, maybe doing a course." "Which will take me right out of the acting field." "Hopefully, I'd love to do film, Australian film, overseas film." "I'd love to go to Japan and shoot films." "I'd love to just be different parts all the time." "Well, the future for me holds a lot of travelling." "And career-wise, maybe, if I'm lucky, some of the dream roles the everybody everybody hopes of landing, you know what I mean?" "I'm not sure whether Hollywood will have me." "Maybe they will, I'm not sure." "But I would love to..." "I'd love to keep making films or just playing characters for the rest of my life." "I'd be very happy to do that." "( Laidback Music )" "MAN:" "Cut!" "Good, OK." "Let's secure here and we'll break for lunch." " MAN 2:" "Is at it?" " WOMAN:" "Of course." "MAN 2:" "Is that it?" "Captioned by Grantman Brown"