INTERVIEW WITH
TENNILLE READ
S TORY BY
BLAI NE SCHLECHTER
Project Four PR & Photo by Dane Clark
I’d like to start first by congratulating you on recently joining the cast of Workin’ Moms as the character Bianca. Can you tell us
a bit about the character and what she brings to the show?
Bianca is a friend of Frankie’s…their friendship was established in season 2, just at the end there, and she becomes Frankie’s
next door neighbour. She is warm hearted and very generous; and she’s courageous because she’s decided to take on
parenting alone. Frankie takes Bianca under her wing since she's been through the ups and downs of pregnancy before. I
think what Bianca brings to the show is an alternate approach to the traditional model of motherhood; someone who is flying
solo with the process of getting pregnant and the challenges that come up within that.
In addition to film and television, you also have an extensive stage career, do you find them fairly similar or quite different to
do?
I actually find them quite different. I get where they are similar, like when you break down a script it’s very similar, but I feel
like with theatre you get so much rehearsal time that you build a tight ensemble. You get to explore different approaches to
your character, you get to try big choices, you get to just move around a lot more during the rehearsal process and it sets you
up for live performance very well. Whereas with film and TV, there’s very little rehearsal and the rehearsal that I do is generally
alone or with my boyfriend running lines and then it’s basically showtime and so there’s just something different about that
performance that’s much more spontaneous; it comes out of the environment and the person right in front of you who you’re
doing the scene with. It’s just so much more immediate, not to say that theatre doesn’t have that to, it’s just that there’s a
backbone structure to a theatre performance that’s already been set and you play within those parameters.
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