Australian actress Melissa George has spent so much time overseas that she hired an Australian dialect coach to get back her Aussie twang.
After George finished on legendary Australian show Home and Away, she moved overseas. A decade later, she is in Australia and has just finished filming the ABC television adaptation of Christos Tsiolkas’ best-selling novel The Slap in Melbourne.
“They had a dialect coach to help me get it right but it came back after five days. I’ve been living in America for 14 years, most of my adult life, so I needed some help.”
The Slap will premiere at this year’s Melbourne International Film Festival and George said she looks forward to seeing the public’s reaction to the series because of its controversial content matter. “I play the mother of the child who is belted at a barbecue and I know exactly who that woman was because, if someone hit my baby, I’d go mental,” she said.
