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Quick Change By: Lisa Yallamas THE
COURIER MAIL Success in a top-rating TV show is fine, until they start pulling your style to pieces. Cassandra Magrath knows the pitfalls SeaChange, ABC Sundays, 7.30pm. MELBOURNE teenager Cassandra Magrath has had an ``awesome teenage hood''. Magrath has been earning money by acting on television since she was 11 years old.
Her very first audition was for Ocean Girl and she got the part. Magrath, 18, has come of age in a role that has taken her from children's afternoon television into prime-time family viewing. ``I gained an appreciation for a lot of things from working with adults,'' Magrath says. ``My friends are all strong, confident and know who they are.'' For the past few years, she has played Laura Gibson's daughter Miranda in the ABC's hit series SeaChange. ``I grew up watching my sister dancing on television, she was one of the Bert Newton dancers,'' Magrath says. ``It didn't seem unusual for me to work in television.'' But she was glad to finish school last year and concentrate on what really interested her. ``I was not really into school,'' she says. ``I'm trying to think of other things to do because there's no guarantee I'll keep doing what I'm doing.'' She is currently filming the second series of Crash Zone, which centres on the lives of a group of talented computer geeks. She plays 15-year-old Pi. She says the success of SeaChange is both exciting and scary to work on. ``I didn't really have a grasp of how big it was going to be,'' she says. It has brought her respect within the television industry but has also made her self-conscious when she is out and about in public. ``People on the train were talking about me being in the show,'' she says. ``They were only a couple of feet away but they were talking as if I wasn't there and I couldn't hear them.'' They criticised what she was wearing, the look of her bag and other things. ``It felt really strange,'' she says. ``I thought I'll have to be more careful about how I dress when I go out.'' Magrath, who has never worked in the theatre, hopes to try her hand at live theatre soon. ``I'm prepared to go overseas if things aren't looking too plump here,'' she says. |
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