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...love the Australian Open,” she says of the Grand Slams. “Wimbledon is the event with the most history, the one you grow up watching. The U.S. Open is also incredible, because it’s in the United States and all of my friends were there...
...years ago, she was in an altogether different place. In 1995, McKenzie won twin Australian Film Institute Awards for the movie Angel Baby and TV series Halifax f.p., playing a schizophrenic and a murder suspect with multiple personality disorder, respectively. If anyone had the monopoly over damaged souls and troubled teens it was McKenzie. The elfin actress first broke hearts as the little girl lost in a gang of neo-Nazi skinheads in Romper Stomper (1992), and proved the perfect Ophelia in Neil Armfield's acclaimed 1994 production of Hamlet. But when that play toured, her role was taken over...
...about those kind of things," she says. Instead, "where my parents and my sister are - that is where home is," she says. To this beloved harbor, she'd like to bring back a film project - perhaps Sisters, which she is developing with Sydney playwright Stephen Sewell. Or even an Australian episode of The 4400 (franchise-friendly, the returnees are from all round the world). "And I've already cast it," she says with a Jude-like cackle. "I've got all my mates in it. It's a cast of thousands, let me tell...
...actress began sponging the canvas with paint, from which figures began emerging - "like you see faces in cloud formations," she recalls. Eighteen months and 63 canvases later, McKenzie has painted up her own little universe, from street urchins to femme fatales, in a na?ve manner not unlike the Australian artist Joy Hester. It's a passion that feeds and is in turn fed by her acting. "It's allowed me to loosen the reins," McKenzie says. "Because I'm not demanding everything from the roles I play now ? It's just been a phenomenal discovery." And for audiences likewise...
...dwellers came from. Velocity (Vintage; 302 pages), a gritty prequel to that celebrated work, provides even more clues to the source of Sayer's creativity. Out of her childhood - from a bizarre conception in May 1962 to the end of her erratic schooldays in 1979 - Sayer has spun an Australian booze opera about the end of the country's postwar golden years. "I knew all the beer gardens in Sydney by the time I was eight," she begins...