ALYCIA DEBNAM CAREY SERIES

Or that she’s a “real flower nerd.” (An hour into our gallery excursion she reveals that she draws them as a mindfulness technique.

ALYCIA DEBNAM CAREY SERIES

There’s the fact that her first ever role when she was just eight-in Rachel Ward’s short film Martha’s New Coat-was shot in the same town that served as the location for Thornfield, the flower farm belonging to Alice’s grandmother, played in the series by the legendary Sigourney Weaver. Eventually, she settles on Whiskey’s painting and dutifully casts her vote. “I feel like I need to do another whip around,” she notes gravely. “Now I’m like, Oh, it’s backstage: it’s the spotlight.” We reach the end of the exhibition and Debnam-Carey realizes that we, the people, are the arbiters of the People’s Choice Award. “How great is that green light?” Debnam-Carey enthuses, pointing out the shadow of neon falling across Karvan’s face. In the next room, we spot Laura Jones’s rendering of Claudia Karvan backstage at the Sydney Theatre Company. She loves Kaylene Whiskey’s self-portrait, a riot of color (and Dolly Parton). She looks for a long time at a portrait of the artist Atong Atem by Shevaun Wright and Sophia Hewson, who captured the painter, hauntingly still, in a landscape of her memories. Though nobody seems to have clocked that the star of Fear the Walking Dead or next month’s The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, with three million Instagram followers hanging off her every post, is perusing the paintings among them.ĭebnam-Carey says she doesn’t know much about the technicalities of art, but the fact is that she knows the only thing there is to know, which is that good art-the best art-is something that moves you. Wouldn’t that be nice on a rainy Thursday morning? As it turns out, lots of other people have had the exact same idea as Debnam-Carey. Instead, we are at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, because this was Debnam-Carey’s other brilliant idea: the Archibald Prize is on. (Even though, as I discover, Debnam-Carey has a lot of things to say.) “We would just be walking.

It is a long walk, maybe too long, actually, for an interview. She’ll be jet-lagged! She will want to walk! Except then she looks up the forecast. When we meet for this interview, the actor will have just landed in her hometown after the 14-hour flight from Los Angeles, her other hometown for the past decade. We’ll go for a walk, she says, her Sydney “best kept secret”: the winding path from Bradleys Head to Chowder Bay, visions of the Harbour Bridge hovering around every corner. This interview was conducted prior to the start of the SAG-AFTRA strike.Īlycia Debnam-Carey has an idea.

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