Madeleine Sami - the Amazonian that didn't die
Posted on 31 May 2011
Credits: Interview, Camera and Editing – Andrew Whiteside
Actor, musician and comedian
Madeleine Sami has been on our TV screens since the age of 18 when she debuted on
Pio! and
Shortland Street. Since then she has appeared in a number of TV shows including
The Insiders Guide to Happiness,
The Jaquie Brown Diaries, and
Diplomatic Immunity. Sami has also graced the big screen in
Sione’s Wedding,
Under the Mountain, and in 2012 a sequel to
Sione’s Wedding. Her most recent TV appearance was in
Super City – a programme of her own creation in which she played five roles.
In this ScreenTalk interview, Sami talks about:
- Having to be taught continuity on the set of Shortland Street
- Learning a lot from her more experienced co-stars on the soap
- The fun and chaos on the set of the feature film Sione’s Wedding
- How action in her most memorable scene was not actually in the script
- Being in the most blood-thirsty episode of Xena
- Loving her role as the comic patsy opposite the lead in The Jaquie Brown Diaries
- Wanting to create a different type of comedy in Super City
- Mixed reactions to the show – from confusion to a cultural icon
- Not realising how much work was involved in playing five lead characters
- Being taken by surprise by the news of a sequel to Sione’s Wedding
This video is
available on YouTube to embed and distribute via a
Creative Commons licence.
NZ ON SCREEN 2013
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