Talking Prisoner - Talking Prisoner Cell Block H Episode 38 Interview with Terrie Waddell (Lisa Mullins)

Talking Prisoner Cell Block H Episode 38 Interview with Terrie Waddell (Lisa Mullins)

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04/26/22 • 110 min

Talking Prisoner

Welcome to Episode 38 of Talking Prisoner. Hosts Ken Mulholland and Matt Batten sat down with Terrie Waddell who played inmate Lisa Mullins. Terri was in the final year of Prisoner and in the very last episode 692. Terrie has also appeared in Neighbours, A Country Practice, A Cry in the Dark, Golden Braid, Wedlocked, The Dame was loaded and Prisoner. We discussed Terries life growing up as a child and where her love for acting came from. Terrie told us about her time on Neighbours and her thoughts on the recent axing of the show. Terrie shared with us why she left acting and to become a Professor in the Department of Creative Arts and English, she shared with us her passion for writing and writing the book “The Lost Child Complex in Australian Film. We discussed Prisoner in great depth and what it was like for Terri to take over the character of Lisa Mullins from Nikki Paul and how she felt about getting the part and how quick it all happened. Terri had many scenes with Rosanne Hull-Brown who played Merle Jones and discussed with us what it was like working with Rosanne and working with Philip Hyde who played Officer Rodney Adams and gave us some behind the scenes on the attempted Rape scene with Peter Lindsay who played Spud. Terrie shared her memories of what it was like to work on Prisoner in its final year and how heavy the workload was with the long hours, We also asked Terrie if the show was to continue would she have like to have continued on longer as Lisa Mullins. Terrie had some scenes with the late Taya Stratton and shared her memories about Taya who played Spider Simpson. There has been lots of speculation and Rumours over the years that Terrie was pregnant when she was on Prisoner and Terri confirms with Ken and Matt the true story on Talking Prisoner. We also spoke about her memories on the last day of Prisoner working on Episode 692 and her scenes with Glenda Linscott, Terrie is a huge fan of Wentworth and shares her thoughts about the re-imagining of Prisoner, We spoke about so much more, Terrie was able to answer all fan questions. Please like and subscribe to our YouTube channel
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Talking Prisoner “Presents” Neighbours Interview with Morgana O’Reilly (Bonus Easter Episode)

Talking Prisoner “Presents” Neighbours Interview with Morgana O’Reilly (Bonus Easter Episode)
Welcome to our bonus Easter Episode of Talking Prisoner “Presents” EP 9. Host Matt Batten sat down with Morgana O’Reilly who is a Television and Film actress, Stand up Comedian and Playwright. Morgana is well known for her role in Neighbours playing Naomi Canning and Narelle Stang in Wentworth, she has also appeared in The Jaquie Brown Diaries, A Thousand Apologies, Piece of my heart, Sunny Skies, Housebound, Rake, Offspring, Secret Bridesmaids and is currently touring her new show “Stories about my body”. Morgana spoke to us about her life growing up, school life, what her parents thought about her getting into the industry. We spent some time talking about her hobbies, what life was like in lockdown for her and what it was like to work with Rebecca Gibney in “Wanted”. Morgana spoke to me in length about her time on Neighbours and what it was like working with Colette Mann and Stefan Dennis both who appeared in Prisoner and Ryan Moloney who plays Toadie, we spoke about her first day on set and her audition and why she did not want a long contract on the show. We then moved on to Wentworth and talked about her role as Narelle Stang and what it was like to work on the show and working with cast like Pamela Rabe, Kate Atkinson and her close friendship with Danielle Cormack. We spoke in great length about her new show Stories About My Body which is a new show that Morgana is touring at the moment and performing at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and what it is like working as a stand up comedian. We spoke about so much more and we are also going to giveaway two free tickets to Morgana’s show to two lucky viewers. Please like and subscribe to our YouTube channel.
#morganaoreilly #wentworth #neighbours #comedy #comedian

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Talking Prisoner Cell Block H EP 34 Part 3 Interview with Coral Drouyn (Script Writer/Story Editor)

Welcome to Episode 34 of Talking Prisoner. Hosts Ken Mulholland and Matt Batten sat down with the talented Script Writer/Script Editor/Storyliner and Story Editor Coral Drouyn. In this final episode with Coral we discussed why Coral was really sacked from Prisoner, this has never been public knowledge and we broke it first on Talking Prisoner. We also broke down episode 399 (The Death of Hazel Kent) and why Coral came up with that storyline and what the reason for it was to have Hazel written out of the show and how hard it was for Coral to write those scenes. In this episode Coral answered every fan question that was asked of her including other Tv shows she would have liked to have worked on, her time on the short lived soap “Arcade” Why Reylene Pearce (Phyllis Hunt) was written out the way she was, what Coral considered to be the Golden Era of Prisoner, why the disappearance of Nora Flynn and what she thought of Nora as Top Dog, Coral gave us her own personal insight as to why she wrote the scene for Kate Petersons “Tick Tick Tick” solitary scene and what she drew on for that scene, something she has never shared publicly before, This is a ground breaking Episode of Talking Prisoner with so much behind the scenes information that has never been made public before. Please like and subscribe to our YouTube channel.
#coraldrouyn #prisoner #cellblockh #wentworth #arcade