The interview is not Nic related, but read the highlighted paragraph which refers to him. Celebs have to put up with this kind of stuff, I guess. They sold their sould to the devil. But still... what a bummer!
As a daughter of '80s TV personality Simon Townsend, and an old friend of Rose Byrne, Nadia Townsend should know about life in the limelight. But she was caught off guard while working on Knowing with Nicolas Cage last year. "We were talking on his balcony when he suggested we go inside because he could see a lens [in] the bushes. I thought, how paranoid, but the next day, the photos were in the papers." The 29-year-old Melburnian better get used to being recognised now she's joined Seven Network's City Homicide (returns August 10, at 8.30pm).
Q: Did you plan to follow in Dad's footsteps? I wanted to be a journo, like Dad, or an actor. But I didn't make up my mind until Rose and I studied under William H Macy at New York's Atlantic Theater Company.
Q: What did he teach you? That you have to make your own work. I came home after three months and started my own theatre company.
Q: Do you envy Rose's career? You think, I wouldn't have minded that gig, but it's dangerous to compare trajectories. Everyone's turn comes.
Q: Were you starstruck by Cage? I was more intrigued at how people turn into odd versions of themselves around celebrities. Towards the end, I started feeling self-conscious - I really wanted him to like me.
Q: Did Knowing give you a taste for Tinseltown? It made me realise I want to cover the spectrum from short student films to blockbusters.
Q: Are you a tough cookie like City Homicide's Detective Senior Constable Allie Kingston? I can't kick arse like my character, but I do share her tendency to talk before I think - people call me 'Hatchet' because I go in with a whack and say sorry later. JANE HUTCHINSON
