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As the city starts to reopen, one can only hope the optimism and hope with which we started the year can return quickly. Though many industries have been knocked about by the effects of the pandemic, one that has remained able to function is film and television (and just quietly, thank goodness for that, else there’d be much less choice while at home). This week, we chat with Melbourne boy Guy Pearce, who’s returned to screens this month with the final Jack Irish instalment on the ABC. He talks about family, the fun of working with Kate Winslet and still calling Melbourne home. ●

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TELEVISION Who will answer when you knock on the door of your family’s past?

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hen it comes to exploring one’s family history, stepping back in time doesn’t always lead to the resolution you anticipated.

In the 12th season of SBS’s Who Do You Think You Are? we’re taken on the family journey of eight prominent Australians including Celia Pacquola, Malcolm Turnbull, Uncle Jack Charles and Denise Drysdale, where discovering who came before stirs all the emotions.

Comedian Pacquola didn’t have much interest in finding out about her past when approached

by SBS to take part in the series.

“I’m the sort of girl focused on the future, wondering what I’ll do next rather than looking back at the past,” she says. “I thought, ‘I’m not that interesting. Who would want to know this?’ It felt arrogant in a way.”

But she decided to participate to help unearth the maternal-line stories for her mother Pam’s sake – and she made sure Pam thought it was OK to do the show.

“I really did this for mum,” Pacquola says.

“She lost both of her parents in her 20s and didn’t really have any stories that came before them.

“I had two very different experiences with the relatives I discovered. It’s not all feel-good, either.

The latter made me very uncomfortable and I am still processing that. It involves stolen land.

It made me wonder, how would a First Nations person watching this feel?

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“I had two very different experiences with the relatives I discovered.

It’s not all feel-good, either.” CELIA PACQUOLA “As white Australians we continue to benefit while First Nations people are disadvantaged,” she says. “I know I am part of it and had a feeling that my family’s past might have had a part in it.”

Actor Uncle Jack Charles is a stolen generation member, taken from his mother at four months old and only reunited with her at 18.

His exploration into finding his father, discovering family members he didn’t know existed and returning to their burial places is as moving as it gets. But it’s his deep desire to know more that led Charles to taking part in the series.

“Mum must have been a very strong woman to sneak out of the Royal Women’s Hospital with me when she was aged 15,” he says. “They caught her at a blackfella camp just outside of Shepparton and that’s when they grabbed me.”

Charles learns about the strong lineage of powerful women who preceded his mother –

a history that traces him from Victoria to the north-east of Tasmania.

“I was told I was an orphan as a kid,” says Charles, who was raised by a foster family in Doncaster East after leaving the Salvation Army’s Box Hill Boys Home aged 14.

“But I always had a feeling I had a father; I just didn’t know anything about him. I finally have that story now. At my age, that gives me a great sense of relief to at least know where I came from.

“I have never had a sense of family or belonging. I had a foster family, but I never knew my real family. Taking part in this show has allowed me to find out things I wouldn’t have known. I wish I would have found this out much younger in life.” ● WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? \ SBS, Tuesdays 7.30pm or SBS On Demand

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Jack of all trades COVER STORY As he wraps up his titular role in

Jack Irish, Guy Pearce reveals some of the ‘pinch-me’ moments of his enviably varied acting career.

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“You try to be convincing every time you take on a role. It’s about finding a truth in the character you are playing – and it’s a great gift to be able to do what I do.”

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t has been two and a half years since actor Guy Pearce was in Melbourne, but it took the filming of the final season of Jack Irish from last November to February this year for the nostalgia to kick in.

“I was on set filming when the sadness hit and it took me quite by surprise,” says Pearce from Bulgaria, where he is now filming Memory with Liam Neeson.

“I knew it was our last season, but the reality of that struck me hard. I was like, ‘Gosh, this is the end.’ Jack Irish kept me coming back, but I still call Melbourne home. I have my house there and I really am a homebody when I’m back.”

Filmed in and around the Napier Hotel in Fitzroy as well as St Kilda and Warrandyte, the final season of Jack Irish is personal for its protagonist.

Pearce’s eponymous character finds himself on a journey of self-discovery as he tries to piece together the story behind his partner’s murder.

“The murder is very triggering for the kind of person Jack has become,” Pearce says of the series, built around the original book by Peter Temple.

“Jack discovers a whole lot of elements to do with the murder of his wife that weren’t apparent to him at the time. It brings up a lot of emotional stuff, and it’s a more confronting series as a result.

“One of the great things about playing Jack is that there has always been a sense of ambivalence about him. He finds himself in the middle of trying to solve some crime, but at the same time not really caring and wondering why he is there.

“I think on a deep level he does care, but doesn’t want to be bothered to care – that’s what’s funny about Jack.”

Pearce, who started his career playing Mike Young on Neighbours in 1986, had his first major film breakthrough eight years later in The

Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. He’s gone on to great things in Hollywood with movies such as L.A. Confidential and Memento, and kept us glued to the small screen in the TV series Mildred Pierce and Mare of Easttown, in which he appears alongside his friend, Kate Winslet.

A day before our interview, the 53-year-old actor sat down for an intimate chat with Liam Neeson, who was talking about Woody Allen. Pearce says that, despite his longevity, there are still plenty of pinch-me moments in his career and he takes nothing for granted.

“Actor Tom Hardy once said there’s two kinds of acting – there’s convincing and nonconvincing,” Pearce says. “You try to be convincing every time you take on a role. It’s about finding a truth in the character you are playing – and it’s a great gift to be able to do what I do.”

He says he had hoped to bring his actor partner Carice van Houten and their son Monte, 4, to Melbourne during filming, but it wasn’t possible.

The pandemic year certainly kept Pearce busy, which means he’s been in and out of quarantine in various countries. Last September and October, he spent two weeks housebound in the US with Winslet, who insisted he join Mare of Easttown. She’s long been a fan of his work, crushing on him as an 11-year-old watching Neighbours when Pearce was 18.

“Kate told me [that] when she found out our birthdays were on the same day, she nearly wet herself,” Pearce says. “She fan-girled all this information to an American crew, explaining who I was. They had no idea what she was talking about because Neighbours wasn’t big in America.

They’re like, ‘That’s lovely, Kate, now let’s get on with filming.’”

The pair have kept in touch over the years, with more in common than ever now that Pearce is a father. Their quarantine time included cooking meals together and sharing parenting stories.

“Kate has wonderful advice and valuable life lessons to share. I have a million questions about being a parent, so we talked about everything,” Pearce says.

Being a father has made Pearce more aware of how much time he’s prepared to spend away from home.

He’s in constant Skype meetings with Carice, working out a schedule of who is in charge when she takes off for London again for a filming job and when the nanny momentarily takes over.

“We are very focused on being a team and being good parents,” Pearce says. “Everything is so COVID-focused now, which it needs to be, but you start to forget about other things that matter in life.

“For us, it’s about getting our perspective balanced again on everything else that matters in the world, from climate change to being able to enjoy ourselves and not be stressed about everything. I don’t want my child growing up panicked about the future.”

While there’s no date just yet planned for a return to Melbourne, Pearce says he’s rolling with the workload.

“I’m still stunned I got to be on Neighbours; I’m stunned I got to do L.A. Confidential and all that followed,” he says. “I’m aware of how precarious it is in this business.

“It’s not that I think I won’t get another job again – I don’t look at it like that – but if I don’t do a good job, then the jobs I do get won’t be the good ones, and none of us want to be that person.” ● JACK IRISH \ ABC TV Sunday nights, or iView ● iview.abc.net.au/show/jack-irish

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SPORT

Doubles life Todd Woodbridge is happy being seen as a tennis great and a TV host.

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itting in an inner-Melbourne cafe, an outrageously youthful Todd Woodbridge – a 50-year-old who has spent so long in the public eye – ponders a question: is he more recognised now as a former tennis great, or for being that guy on TV? The 22-time grand slam men’s and mixed doubles champion and former world No.19 in singles (people forget that bit) insists it’s not something he thinks about. But the Sydney-born Melbourne adoptee who jokes that he’s done the necessary wardrobe switch

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“to scarves and coats in winter, and you-neverknow-what in summer’’ also acknowledges his profile has changed.

“There’s a group of people that know me for tennis, for the Woodies, for achievements, and then there’s a different age bracket who know me as a host, presenter, commentator; the bloke who sells vitamins,’’ Woodbridge says, laughing over his latte.

“More recently, I’ve found that people recognise me, but it’s really broad. The most recent thing is going on Postcards. Everyone I speak to is like,

“One month of my life - basically every year - has been spent around Wimbledon Village and London ... I cannot wait to go back.”

‘You’re on Postcards, that’s great.’ It’s local.

It’s a very, very homegrown show. Very Victorian, very Melbourne.’’

He is a resident of Brighton East with his wife, Tash, talented golfer daughter Zara, 20, and musical theatre performer Beau, 18.

COVID has meant Woodbridge had to stay put for the longest period since he moved to the AIS in Canberra at the age of 14. But he’s enjoyed it, grateful that Port Phillip Bay is within their fivekilometre lockdown exercise radius, given that his beloved Royal Melbourne Golf Club has had to close for long periods.

This year’s Wimbledon will be the first he has missed since sharing the boys’ doubles title with

Jason Stoltenberg in 1987. Instead, the Tennis Australia ambassador will be commentating from Nine’s Melbourne studios from June 28 to July 11.

The most recent of Australia’s Wimbledon singles champions was Lleyton Hewitt in 2002. Before that, it was Pat Cash in 1987. And Cash’s opponent when the defending champion stepped on to centre court? A fresh-faced debutant named Todd.

“I had that unique experience of walking out there for my very first match as a singles player and feeling that electricity of sound as you walk out,’’ says Woodbridge, who, with former doubles partner Mark Woodforde, is among the fewer than 500 All England Club members.

Things he will miss in 2021 include the ritual of

stepping through the gates for the first time and taking a few quiet moments to sit next to the world’s most famous court before the crowds arrive. And the strawberries, the Pimms, even the queues.

“One month of my life – basically every year – has been spent around Wimbledon Village and London,’’ says the nine-time doubles champion and former singles semi-finalist (people forget that, too). “So, this will feel uncomfortable and nostalgic. I cannot wait to go back.’’

When he does, Woodbridge will be there as both a former tennis star and current TV host. And happy to be recognised as both. ● WIMBLEDON \ Nine, from June 28

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