This interview with Gabby Millgate was received back on the 21st of March 2001 - about seven hours after I got the interview back from Tanya Bulmer. Isn't e-mail a wonderful thing?
What was the best year to work on Full Frontal/Totally Full Frontal?
The first year 1997 was the best. It was all an amazing trip into TV land. I worked really well with the producer/head writer, Doug McLeod. The following two years weren't as fun because the director and producer changed, doug left and nobody on the new writing team got into my writing. Boo hoo...ah fuckem'
Did you enjoy your role in Babe II: Pig in the City?
Yes. I had one line which I said a gazillion times but they only used it once in the movie.
What did you find more fun, being in Muriel's Wedding or being the Muriel's Wedding fan in Dags?
Both experience were fun in different ways. Muriels was my first professional gig and so I was wide eyed and loving everybit. Dags was a head trip. Post modern and self referencing. I played a character who wanted to rent a movie that I was in...in real life
Which do you prefer, debating or improv?
dunno
What was your favourite character role in Full Frontal/Totally Full Frontal which you performed?
Cathy Scanlon's art of the funniest home video. I wrote cathy with doug and when doug left Cathy died but she's been resurrected on the Bob Downe Show (TV1) because doug's the head writer. Hooray!
Did you prefer being on seven or ten?
The location had litle effect on my experience. Although at ten I was working in the same building as neighbours and I got in a fight with Nicola Charles just as Toady was going to show me round Erinsbrough.
Which comedians do you like to work with the most?
Julia Zemiro, Bob Down, Darren Gilshenan. Vic Plume. Peter Berner, Paul McDermot
I have to say, as a comedian, I look up to you. Has anyone else ever said that to you?
I tell everyone who say that that they're the only one.
Thankyou for the compliment. here is a poem
Looking through a keyhole
to see what I could see
and on the other side ws an Angel, just like me
"I'm beside myself" she cried
with joy the Other replied
"I'm beside myself too, I'm here and I am you."
What are your opinions of the Sydney improv scene?
It is a joy to know that it is still a passionate, vibrant form of expression that is more magical, transformative and empowering than any other theatrical form I've seen.
How about compared to the improv scene of other places?
Sydney is the best. Chuck out the rest
If you could change one thing about the world, what would you change?
We'd all travel in star tetrahedrons instead of cars
Describe your first ever performance.
I was a little white duck and I was brilliant.
Is there anything else you'd like to say?
Plenty but "don't eat spagetti with a knife" was on the tip of my tongue along with "I'm a millionaire...oh my god dejavu"
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