A Shakespeare festival entry at fourteen, a drama teacher who recorded the auditions herself, and a stack of VHS tapes posted to agents around Australia is where all of this actually starts.
Adelaide opens up about entering the Shakespeare festival every year at her Sydney school, and the moment John Bell told her drama teacher she should take acting seriously. She talks about a childhood spent moving, from Cognac in France to Queensland, and about the extended family who never left and what she understands about them because of it. She gets candid about the double edged sword of putting something off, how the fear of leaving grows the longer you delay it, and how that fear traps the woman she plays here. Adelaide walks through shooting more than a hundred scenes in twenty four days, what she has learned to be strategic about asking for, and the one thing she will not let a schedule rush. She also reflects on a run of deeply religious characters, the theology degree she nearly took, and watching her grandfather turn to faith while he was battling cancer.
An essential watch for anyone who has ever let a fear grow by waiting.
