ArtView May 2014 | Page 14

Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010) And you have an agent on the US? How did you start off getting work as an actor? I have a manager in the US. I was in a youth theatre group when I was 8 years old, and just started doing plays and things like that. I Have you done any work there? pushed and pushed and pushed my mum, and then she took me to go and see an agent in Brisbane. They Not yet... It’s difficult because of the visa restrictions, signed me when I was 11 and I started auditioning. I so you can’t even really audition for projects over got some extras work, did some commercials and it there until you have a work visa. It’s kind of a kind of grew from there... chicken and egg thing, you can’t get the visa without the work, and you can’t get the work without the visa... but it’s definitely helping to solidify my career, having a manager over there. You did some early work in TV shows like H20... I did, I had a few little one-liners and things like that in H20, which was a nice way to get started – just to Have you always wanted to be an actor? even see how a set works, because it’s a very different world. Oh yeah, I think from the moment I was born I already knew ... There’s never been anything else for me.