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‎ Wearing CHANEL Photographed by @darren_mcdonald Styled by @jilliandavison Hair by @michmcquillan Makeup by @victoriabaron Nails by @cindyvellisnailstylist

Sometime over the course of last summer, I reinvented myself. I was in Brisbane shooting Boy Swallows Universe, the new Netflix adaptation of Trent Dalton's best-selling debut novel, in which I play Frankie Bell, the young mother of lead characters Eli and Gus. "It was probably more abstract research than I've ever done?" I tell BAZAAR "It just felt so important to me to do this right and to honour these characters. I was doing all this research about people who'd faced adversity and overcome hardships. It was almost like a six-month vacation for my mind, because I would go to work and then, at night, I was nourishing myself with positivity from the podcasts and books that were so important to me for shaping the character of Frankie. But then I took on all those messages subliminally. I kind of came out of it as this really evolved version of myself." In my Harper's BAZAAR Australia/New Zealand cover story, I open up about the role that could be, if not career-defining, then at the very least the switch to make the film industry sit up and take notice of me. Find out more in our January issue, hitting newsstands on December 21.

ㅤㅤㅤ𝙉𝙀𝙒 𝙅𝘼𝙉𝙐𝘼𝙍𝙔 𝘾𝙊𝙑𝙀𝙍 𝙇𝙊𝙊𝙆 𝙁𝙊𝙍 𝙃𝘼𝙍𝙋𝙀𝙍’𝙎 𝘽𝘼𝙕𝘼𝘼𝙍 𝘼𝙐𝙎𝙏𝙍𝘼𝙇𝙄𝘼

Sometime over the course of last summer, I reinvented myself. I was in Brisbane shooting Boy Swallows Universe, the new Netflix adaptation of Trent Dalton's best-selling debut novel, in which I play Frankie Bell, the young mother of lead characters Eli and Gus. "It was probably more abstract research than I've ever done?" I tell BAZAAR "It just felt so important to me to do this right and to honour these characters. I was doing all this research about people who'd faced adversity and overcome hardships. It was almost like a six-month vacation for my mind, because I would go to work and then, at night, I was nourishing myself with positivity from the podcasts and books that were so important to me for shaping the character of Frankie. But then I took on all those messages subliminally. I kind of came out of it as this really evolved version of myself." In my Harper's BAZAAR Australia/New Zealand cover story, I open up about the role that could be, if not career-defining, then at the very least the switch to make the film industry sit up and take notice of me. Find out more in our January issue, hitting newsstands on December 21.

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