March 15, 2010
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Byron Shire Echo June , ArticlesLocal girl makes big noiseHans Lovejoy Australian lm Noise stars actress Katie Wall, who grew up in Byron Bay. She attended both primary and high school here but left for Sydney at the age of to pursue her acting career. After attending the Victorian College of Arts in Melbourne, Ms Wall went onto win an AFI award for best supporting actress in the ABC mini series Marking Time. Other TV credits include The Secret Life Of Us, The Surgeon, All Saints and Water Rats. Katie is now based in LA and doing the audition circuit, and I had the opportunity to ask her some questions via email.What were some defining moments that led to greater successchildhood up to the point I left Byron at anywayWhat do you miss most about AustraliaByronIt depends, personally when I do work that I feel satised with, that is the ultimate, but professionally a dening moment I guess was winning an AFI award. Local girl made good, Katie Wall, one of the stars of Noise.Are there lessons to learn lope stufng to selling wine regarding taking risks and over the phone. opportunities that led you to How do you manage to keep this integrity and identity intact in I think the greater the risk, a business that is renowned the greater the payoff. I think for being shallow and superdiving into a role warts and ficial Or perhaps that hasnt all without trying to calculate been your experience how it is going to look from the outside is what I try and I have found that I have had aim for. to be very careful to navigate my way through, steering clear What is the best advice you of the murky jobs and people, can give young people want- and really try and follow what makes me laugh basically. I ing to get into acting think life is about what makes Dont do it Seriously. If you smile, whether it is a paryou can think of any other ticular project or person or carrot cake with extra cream career, do that. cheese icing. The world of acting is presumably a very hard road to Sixteen seems a very young travel. What was it like Did age to start a career. Did you you have to do many day ever feel you missed having jobs while working towards normal childhood this I dont regret what I did, Its a nightmare. I have because its all part and parcel done every job under the of where I am now. I didnt sun Everything from enve- actually have a very normalOh everything Family, family, family. The smoothies at Fundies, The Pass at magic hour, the Farmers Market. I will back there barefoot and pregnant in no time when all this silly acting stuff blows over.What is the next film you will be working onI am staring down the barrel of LA audition world. You have to just keep tapdancing your way through and laughing as much as possible, because if you stop, you start crying It is really funny actually, it is a life of extremes, you go from being so so completely broke, to being treated like absolute royalty. And you cant buy into the latter because its not real.