Everybody Needs Good Neighbours!

Everybody Needs Good Neighbours!

Today is the day that I have to get out the tissues and prepare for some weeping. My favourite TV soap opera is finishing after 37 amazing years. ‘Neighbours’ has been with me ever since I was 8 years old and I originally watched every day with my nan. Now we are about to see the final episode with some returning famous faces. The original cast from 1986. I used to love coming home from school…

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Stefan Dennis as Paul Robinson in Neighbours Ep. 449 (1987)

Spoilers: 11th-21st December

Monday 11th: Chloe faces a heartbreaking decision.

Wednesday 13th: A familiar face returns to Erinsborough (Elly).

Thursday 14th: Chloe and Elly make a life changing decision.

Tuesday 19th: Chloe and Elly reassess their future.

Mischa Sunday Telegraph Interview

Why Mischa Barton said yes to surprise role on Neighbours

She was the star of the hottest teen drama of the noughties, but The O.C’s Mischa Barton shocked everyone when she signed on to the revival of Aussie soap Neighbours. Now she exclusively reveals to Stellar why she gave up work in the US for a show she’d never seen in suburban Melbourne.

After starring in the hottest teen drama of the noughties and being idolised for her every fashionable move, Mischa Barton surprised everyone when she signed up for some suburban drama on Australia’s most famous cul-de-sac in a revival of Neighbours. But then the British-born, US-based actor – who started her career on the stage and in soap operas – has never relished the role Hollywood chose for her. In an exclusive interview with Stellar, the 37-year-old recalls being cast in The O.C. because she “wasn’t anything like the other young blonde girls going in and trying out” and reveals how she’s taken charge of her own narrative.

Craning her neck forward, Mischa Barton lets out a squeal of excitement as she hears the first bars of Neighbours actor Stefan Dennis’ 1989 single ‘Don’t It Make You Feel Good’ emanate from a mobile phone. “I’m adding that to my playlist!” she exclaims with a throaty laugh, before plotting how she will tease Dennis on the Neighbours set the next day, her first suggestion being that she might just broadcast the tune loudly in her dressing room.

While Barton was a fan of Kylie Minogue before joining the Neighbours cast, she was far less familiar with the era-typifying swerve into pop music made by Dennis (who has been playing the show’s “villain” Paul Robinson since 1985), let alone its reputation for turning out future Australian music superstars. As such, she can confidently say it’s “very, very unlikely” that her 10-week stint on Ramsay Street was motivated by a secret desire to follow in the footsteps of Minogue, Natalie Imbruglia, Delta Goodrem or even Dennis.

So if not music, then what did prompt the former star of the early 2000s teen drama The O.C. to say yes to a stint in suburban Melbourne working on a show that she has never seen, and that has no cultural footprint in the US, where she lives?

Certainly for Network 10, adding Barton to the cast was a shrewd move to create buzz when the series returns later this month, resurrected just over a year after its 37-year run came to an end and also airing for the first time in the US and Canada via Amazon’s streaming service Freevee (as well as streaming in Australia and New Zealand on Amazon Prime). For Barton, who wasn’t yet born when Neighbours debuted in 1985, it was a serendipitous chance to try something new, as well as reconnect with some old friends in Australia.

When Stellar spoke to Barton in June, a week before she returned to the US, she explained the role had “come at a really good time, because while I was loving living in New York, there’s a writers’ strike on. And it’s [Northern Hemisphere] summertime. So there’s really not that much work going around for a lot of my actor friends.”

Of course, the Hollywood actors’ strike – which was called in mid-July – has also compounded the issue for Barton’s fellow actors. However, practicality and picket lines aside, the real lure for Barton was the role of Reece Sinclair, a wealthy American who arrives in Erinsborough under the guise of doing business – but in reality, has a much more personal agenda to fulfil. “And then she falls for a guy,” Barton says with a smile. “It actually just felt like a very good fit for me in terms of a role I could really play. And I don’t always feel that way with television.”

Her sentiment is understandable given the 37-year-old’s most high-profile project since leaving The O.C. in 2006 was her surprising gear-shift into reality TV on The Hills: New Beginnings. A sequel to the popular MTV series that followed the daily lives of TV personalities Brody Jenner, Audrina Patridge, Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt, it was sold to her as an opportunity to let people see “the real Mischa Barton”. Ultimately, she felt let down by the process.

“Would I do it again? Probably not something like The Hills,” Barton tells Stellar. “I think they’re even continuing to try to do it, but it just wasn’t really all the things that were promised around it, like clearing up any misconceptions or getting people to know you. There are just people putting

on too many fronts and they’re not being themselves. So if people aren’t being themselves, it’s impossible because I’m used to having a script. That middle ground is just too trying for me. It’s partially scripted but it’s not, but they can’t really say that. So it wasn’t my favourite experience.

“But I’ve never been attracted to that kind of fame, either,” she adds. “It’s not something that I chase. I actually veer away from it.”

Fame has long been an uncomfortable by-product of Barton’s chosen career. Asked whether she’s grateful to have become a celebrity in an era when smartphones couldn’t capture her every move, Barton sighs wearily. “You can always play the grass is greener thing, and I just don’t feel that way,” she says. “I mean, in a sense, it would have been much easier for me if there had been social media to combat all the ludicrous stories in the press. Now, kids can really show their own narrative. You can use your own social media to be whoever you want to be.”

She qualifies her reply after a brief pause: “At the same time, I don’t really love social media. So I’m fine with having come up in a time when it wasn’t around and things were, in one sense, a lot simpler.”

That’s why, rather than opting for a luxury hotel suite, Barton relished staying in a relatively humble cottage nestled behind Melbourne’s bustling Chapel Street for the duration of her time filming Neighbours. There, she could cook meals for friends, do her own laundry and, when her schedule allowed, walk to the Prahran Market to pick up fresh fruit and veg. She also found time to indulge in a bit of shopping, and admits that she would be going home with far heavier suitcases than when she arrived. “I really liked a vintage store I found there,” she says of Chapel Street, which is known for its eclectic mix of high-end boutiques and second-hand clothing markets. “I did a lot of damage in there.”

Filming in Australia meant such excursions could be enjoyed without being recognised or photographed, and added a layer of protection for Barton, who has learnt the tricks to staying incognito – the easiest being to steer clear of bars and clubs where people inevitably want selfies.

Avoiding unwanted attention wasn’t always so easy. When The O.C. first aired in 2003, it catapulted Barton and the rest of her young co-stars into a searing spotlight of adulation and attention. For someone who had been acting steadily since she was eight – making her screen debut in the US soap opera All My Children in 1994, and going on to appear in two of the biggest films of 1999, M. Night Shyamalan’s thriller The Sixth Sense and Richard Curtis’ hit romance Notting Hill – the sudden and frenzied interest in both The O.C. and her personal life was a shock to the system.

“I was 17 or 18 and it was a very specific kind of fame,” Barton recalls. “Most actors, they can work their whole lives and have a very normal level of notoriety or fame. But, for some reason, The O.C. was just one of those things. It was a time and a place, and it just took off in a very different direction. It was kind of an uncontrollable beast. But I’ve been in this industry for a long time and managed, for a large portion of it, to get away with just living a very normal life.”

Both Barton and her character, rich girl Marissa Cooper, became fashion icons of the time, with the actor regularly centre stage on red carpets and front row at fashion weeks, while young girls everywhere mimicked her onscreen style of low-slung jeans and spaghetti-strap tops.

Recalling her time in the fashion spotlight and the pressures to look a certain way in Hollywood, she says she’s “learnt how to get away from it. I don’t really live in LA anymore, so I don’t put myself under that constant scrutiny and pressure. I’ll only dip into [the Hollywood scene] when I feel like it’s healthy and something I want to do.”

Even so, Barton recalls how a “bizarre amount” of people found it hard to separate the British-born and New York-raised Barton from the quintessential Californian teenager she portrayed. “People were obsessed with Marissa Cooper,” she says. “I’d get sent a lot of [scripts] that are rehashes of her. And I was always like, ‘Do you not realise that’s actually not something I like to play?’ I didn’t really enjoy having to play that character. I had to find my own version of Marissa and I think the real reason I was cast is because I wasn’t really anything like the other young blonde girls going in and trying out for it.”

Barton left the show in its third season in 2006, when Marissa died in a shocking car crash. The series’ creator Josh Schwartz recently told Vanity Fair that he regretted killing off her character, saying he wished he’d found a way to give Barton “the break she needed and wanted that still would’ve allowed for that character to return”.

Fans say The O.C. never recovered from Barton’s departure, but the death scene – in which Marissa’s body is carried from the flames by her longtime love Ryan Atwood (Ben McKenzie) – is etched into TV history.

“I’ve only just rewatched that scene recently,” Barton admits. “I never watched it after I did it because there was really no reason to, but I just did the podcast [Welcome To The OC, Bitches!, hosted by her former co-stars Rachel Bilson and Melinda Clarke, who played her best friend Summer Roberts and mother Julie Cooper] and we rewatched it together, and it was weirdly emotional. I was like, ‘Oh, I forgot the car is on fire.’ And I forgot there’s no music playing for once in the show. It was done in a really interesting way.”

Despite the enduring affection the public still has for the series, Barton isn’t sure that a reboot of The O.C. would work for audiences today. “It’s not like it hasn’t come up before, but obviously, I’m dead,” she says with a smile. “Honestly, it’s more likely to work as an offshoot of it or something based around those characters that’s not exactly the same, rather than trying to simply resurrect them. You’d have to think outside the box if you want to resurrect The O.C. culture or characters.”

And while The O.C. featured former Neighbours co-star Alan Dale, who played his screen dad and is one of his good mates, Dennis had never seen the US series. He was only aware that Barton – or, as he knew her, “the vomiting girl from The Sixth Sense” – was coming to Ramsay Street.

“[I thought], ‘Oh, here we go, they’ve cast a Hollywood hero to show us how it’s done,’” Dennis admits to Stellar. “There was a cautious shyness initially as she was alone on the other side of the world, thrown into a building full of people she didn’t know and working day-by-day in a show she didn’t know or understand the way it worked. This cautious shyness was misread by me. I now like to think we have cemented a long-term friendship.”

Another castmate, Annie Jones (who rejoined the show in 2020, reprising her 1980s character Jane Harris), was equally impressed by Barton, enthusing that she brought a “beautiful, serene calmness to the set. It’s great for the show to have someone of Mischa’s calibre on it. She was gorgeous. Everyone loved her.”

And while Barton may be back in the US as Neighbours returns to air, she tells Stellar she remains excited that – unlike her very final departure from The O.C. – the door has been left open for a return. And the plot wheels are already turning in her head, as Barton teases, “Reece might pop up on FaceTime from New York.”

Wives Cara and Remi, played by Sara West (Don’t Tell, Wakefield, Peter Allen: Not the Boy Next Door) and Naomi Rukavina (Harry Potter Theatre Production, Run Rabbit Run, Pawno), and sons JJ, played by Riley Bryant (Surviving Summer 2) and Dex, played by newcomer Marley Williams in his first television role – make up the Varga-Murphy family.

Sara West said: “I’m so honoured to be a part of the new Neighbours legacy and really looking forward to bringing the Varga-Murphy family to Australian and international screens. Cara has a bold, impassioned love for her family and I love that her intentions have, so far, always been good. I hope having the Varga-Murphy’s on tele will help better reflect the beautiful LGBTQIA+ community that I’m proud to be a part of and I can’t wait to share the family with you!”

Naomi Rukavina said: “I am thrilled to be joining the new Neighbours legacy. As a stalwart of Australian drama television, the show is on the front foot of showcasing diverse and real representations of Australian families, not in a tokenistic way. The joys, sadness and madness of Neighbours has been a great adventure thus far and the Varga-Murphy family have already formed a special bond off screen and on. I can’t wait to share it with the world.”

Jason Herbison, Neighbours’ Executive Producer, said: “We are delighted to welcome the Varga-Murphy family to Ramsay Street and the amazing cast portraying them. It feels fitting that the new season will herald the arrival of a new household, with many new stories to tell. They have fitted into Erinsborough beautifully, they are warm, fun and also very unpredictable.”

leo, when his messiness creates a whole new wave of problems for everyone in erinsborough upon his return in 2023: 

Anne Scott-Pendlebury, bugün (17 Ekim Salı) klasik karakter Hilary Robinson olarak Neighbors'a sürpriz bir dönüş yaptı ve hayranlar onu bu rolde tekrar görmekten çok mutlu oldu.Karakter ilk olarak 1987'de dizide göründü ve 1990'da ayrılmasına rağmen, en son 2018'de olmak üzere birçok kez Erinsborough'ya geri döndü.Bugün, kendisini Terese Willis (Rebekah Elmaloglou) ile Jane Harris (Annie Jones) arasında, yeni bir huzurevi köyü inşa etmek için Erinsborough Lisesi'nin kapatılması planlarıyla ilgili bir kavganın ortasında bulduğunda konuk oyuncu olarak yer aldı.Bölümde, Hilary'nin kuzeni Paul Robinson, onu yeni teklifi hakkında sohbet etmek için Terese ile buluşmaya davet etti ve başlangıçta bu fikre sempatik görünse de, Jane gelip okulun yerle bir edilmesini gerektireceğini ona bildirdiğinde fikri değişti.Bilgilerinizi girerek şunları kabul etmiş olursunuz: Şartlar ve koşullar Ve Gizlilik Politikası. Aboneliğinizi istediğiniz zaman iptal edebilirsiniz.Daha önce Erinsborough Lisesi'nde kütüphaneci olarak çalışmış olan Hilary, "Okula zarar verecek hiçbir girişimi asla destekleyemem" dedi.Hayranlar karakterin geri dönüşünü görmekten açıkça çok memnun oldular ve birçoğu sosyal medya üzerinden duygularını dile getirdi.Bir hayran X'te (eski adıyla Twitter) "Aman Tanrım, bu sadece Hilary Robinson" diye yazarken, bir diğeri şöyle yazdı: "HILARY FLIPPING ROBINSON!"Komşular dizisinin oyuncu kadrosu. Amazon BedavaHayranların gün boyunca bölümü takip ederek geri dönüşe tepki vermeye devam etmesi muhtemel görünüyor; Hilary, yeniden başlatılan şovun geçen ay Amazon Freevee'de yayınlanmaya başlamasından bu yana Ramsey Caddesi'ne geri dönen en son ikonik karakter haline geldi. Devamını oku:Komşular Amazon Freevee'de her pazartesiden perşembeye sabah 7'den itibaren devam ediyor. Sabunlar kapsamımıza daha fazla göz atın veya neler olduğunu öğrenmek için TV Rehberimizi ve Yayın Rehberimizi ziyaret edin.Radio Times dergisini bugün deneyin ve yalnızca 10 £ karşılığında 10 sayıya sahip olun, AYRICA evinize teslim edilen 10 £ John Lewis and Partners kuponu da alın - hemen abone olun. TV'nin en büyük yıldızlarından daha fazlası için The Radio Times Podcast'ini dinleyin.

Anne Scott-Pendlebury, bugün (17 Ekim Salı) klasik karakter Hilary Robinson olarak Neighbors'a sürpriz bir dönüş yaptı ve hayranlar onu bu rolde tekrar görmekten çok mutlu oldu.Karakter ilk olarak 1987'de dizide göründü ve 1990'da ayrılmasına rağmen, en son 2018'de olmak üzere birçok kez Erinsborough'ya geri döndü.Bugün, kendisini Terese Willis (Rebekah Elmaloglou) ile Jane Harris (Annie Jones) arasında, yeni bir huzurevi köyü inşa etmek için Erinsborough Lisesi'nin kapatılması planlarıyla ilgili bir kavganın ortasında bulduğunda konuk oyuncu olarak yer aldı.Bölümde, Hilary'nin kuzeni Paul Robinson, onu yeni teklifi hakkında sohbet etmek için Terese ile buluşmaya davet etti ve başlangıçta bu fikre sempatik görünse de, Jane gelip okulun yerle bir edilmesini gerektireceğini ona bildirdiğinde fikri değişti.Bilgilerinizi girerek şunları kabul etmiş olursunuz: Şartlar ve koşullar Ve Gizlilik Politikası. Aboneliğinizi istediğiniz zaman iptal edebilirsiniz.Daha önce Erinsborough Lisesi'nde kütüphaneci olarak çalışmış olan Hilary, "Okula zarar verecek hiçbir girişimi asla destekleyemem" dedi.Hayranlar karakterin geri dönüşünü görmekten açıkça çok memnun oldular ve birçoğu sosyal medya üzerinden duygularını dile getirdi.Bir hayran X'te (eski adıyla Twitter) "Aman Tanrım, bu sadece Hilary Robinson" diye yazarken, bir diğeri şöyle yazdı: "HILARY FLIPPING ROBINSON!"Komşular dizisinin oyuncu kadrosu. Amazon BedavaHayranların gün boyunca bölümü takip ederek geri dönüşe tepki vermeye devam etmesi muhtemel görünüyor; Hilary, yeniden başlatılan şovun geçen ay Amazon Freevee'de yayınlanmaya başlamasından bu yana Ramsey Caddesi'ne geri dönen en son ikonik karakter haline geldi. Devamını oku:Komşular Amazon Freevee'de her pazartesiden perşembeye sabah 7'den itibaren devam ediyor. Sabunlar kapsamımıza daha fazla göz atın veya neler olduğunu öğrenmek için TV Rehberimizi ve Yayın Rehberimizi ziyaret edin.Radio Times dergisini bugün deneyin ve yalnızca 10 £ karşılığında 10 sayıya sahip olun, AYRICA evinize teslim edilen 10 £ John Lewis and Partners kuponu da alın - hemen abone olun. TV'nin en büyük yıldızlarından daha fazlası için The Radio Times Podcast'ini dinleyin.

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[ad_1] Well, it turns out everybody needs good Neighbours after all - the long-running soap is back just over a year after what we thought was the final farewell to Ramsay Street.Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan, Guy Pearce - even Margot Robbie on Zoom! - were among the famous former stars who returned to Erinsborough to say goodbye after the Australian soap was axed by British broadcaster Channel 5, after 37 years on screen, in 2022.But, almost as if Bouncer had conjured it up in a dream, earlier this year it was announced that streamer Amazon Freevee would be bringing Neighbours back. The first episode airs on Monday, with some familiar faces - Hi Dr Karl and Susan! - as well as a mysterious new arrival played by Mischa Barton, star of glamorous noughties US teen drama The OC.As we enter the era of Neighbours 2.0, Sky News spoke to some of the stars about the big return.Alan Fletcher (Dr Karl Kennedy): 'I was nervous coming back' Everywhere you go in the UK, people just want to talk Neighbours, talk excitement levels about Neighbours coming back. It's quite a phenomenon. In the script there's been a two-year break, so the writing team have very cleverly been able to craft a story that teases out what happens in those two years.I was quite nervous going back because, you know, Neighbours was kind of like wearing old clothes for most of us - a very familiar work environment, you go to work, you know everybody, it was very relaxed and we had a great time making our TV show. Coming back, the stakes are suddenly way up here because the show has been saved and we really needed to pay homage to that.There's some delicious comedy to come. We've got wonderful returnees like Harold coming in to be a guest character. We've got these fabulous new characters as well. So there's a lot going on... and it has been revealed that there's something going on with [Karl's wife] Susan, some sort of secret she's holding on to. And that plays out really interestingly. It's a bit of a shock to Karl.Mischa Barton (Reece Sinclair): 'I was grateful to Neighbours veterans' Neighbours was surprisingly different to other shows I've worked on. All of these sets function very differently. This one, it was wild. I have a lot of respect for them; it's multi-camera and they work so fast and the amount of content that they shoot, like five episodes in a week and probably 20 scenes a day, and they don't get multiple takes. I was really grateful to veterans like Stefan [Dennis, who plays Paul Robinson] to take me under his wing and show me how it functions, because it's a well-oiled machine.Reece Sinclair, I just really like her as a character. I thought she was something that I would enjoy playing and was kind of written with me in mind. And the writers were very open to trying to Americanise it a little bit and make sure she was like, you know, appropriately outsider but also had her place in this world... Reece will definitely find a way to irritate Paul, which is good. She's very mysterious. You don't really know why she's there at first and then it turns out there is a lot more to her being there than originally meets the eye. So it's not quite straightforward.I've done my piece, but I mean, it's left so that the character can come back. In true Neighbours style, there's always the option there and anything can really happen with. She leaves things behind in Australia so it's definitely a possibility. It's not wrapped up.Georgie Stone (Mackenzie Hargreaves): 'Neighbours allowed a trans character to exist as a person' I remember vividly saying goodbye to everyone, goodbye to the show and goodbye to the building, which was like our home through COVID. And that was really emotional. So to be back in that building with some familiar faces and with some new people as well was so cool. It's like the ultimate bonus round - we thought we were done and now we're back again. I think we all just feel really lucky and grateful because we know what the world is like without Neighbours and without it in our lives. So we're just holding on to that feeling.Neighbours was an incredible opportunity for me to tell a story that was very close to my heart, you know, aligned with my own experience, with Mackenzie being a trans woman. I'm a trans woman and Neighbours was an incredible opportunity to tell a story that isn't told often on screen. And when it is told, it's kind of riddled with stereotypes and tropes that aren't helpful. Working with the writers on the show to make sure Mackenzie's experience was honest and respectful just made it such a fun and rewarding experience. And then we were able to go beyond that and have Mackenzie exist outside her gender identity and just be, in Erinsborough and part of the drama like everyone else.I think that's radical in and of itself, to allow a trans character just to exist as a person, because so often we're reduced to that one aspect of our experience. Neighbours will always mean a lot to me because of that and in whatever projects in the future I do, Neighbours will always be that one that changed everything for me, and offered to other shows an example, a way to tell the story in a way that's really helpful and respectful. I think Neighbours has paved the way.Stefan Dennis (Paul Robinson): 'It was one of the saddest things I ever heard' Nostalgically I'm going to say the '80s is my favourite era of Neighbours, but in absolute honesty it's now. Right now. Seriously... let's be honest about this, we're still making a soap - we're not making Shakespeare, we're making a soap, but we're making a damn good soap. I'm privileged to be working on one of the greatest soaps on the planet, which is really, really well filmed and well written. So now is my favourite era. But nostalgically, the '80s, obviously, is when it all began and was a huge phenomenon, particularly in the UK.The thing about the show ending was, it could have been so easy to just sort of drop the ball in the last couple of weeks and go, 'Ah, yeah, what's the point?' Not put our heart into it. But we did the opposite. One of the most emotional things that I've ever heard in my life was Adam Noel, one of our first assistant directors, when he was doing that last scene. And he said: 'Ladies and gentlemen, that's a wrap.' It was one of the saddest things I ever heard.The way that the world watches television now has evolved greatly. My philosophy was if Neighbours, or any soap, does not get picked up by a mainstream streaming channel, it'll be the slow demise of soaps around the world, because people are watching free-to-air television for sports news, current affairs and reality television - everything else, they go to streaming. So I was ecstatic that Amazon got behind it.Rebekah Elmaloglou (Terese Willis): 'I sold my house' It was devastating when Neighbours ended... I think in the last six months it was just more about getting to the end and getting the job done and trying to be positive and look ahead, beyond the end of the show, to what was going to be next for all of us in our own personal lives.As far as the cast and crew go, we were all just trying to get the job done as professionally as we could, but also knowing that, you know, we were all going to be unemployed. I sold my house. We wanted to move up to New South Wales anyway. But then, yeah, then the show got picked up again and it was like, 'Okay, we're moving back to Melbourne'. And we got the dogs and the cat and the kid and... got back in the car and drove back down. But it was fantastic. I didn't think twice about coming back."Tim Kano (Leo Tanaka): 'It starts off with a real bang' It was definitely a big grieving process when Neighbours ended and a lot of cast and crew sold their houses and moved away to different parts of Australia or wherever they originally lived. Then of course when we got the call that it was coming back, we were just overwhelmed with emotion.They've brought it back in such a great way, it's really smart. There's enough of a time gap for a bit of evolution for the characters, but also to bring in awesome new characters as well... I think Mischa's character Reece brings a really interesting kind of twisty plotline. And I think it starts off with a real bang that has a kind of domino effect in terms of every character gets affected by what happens, even in the first episode. So it's exciting to see what comes around and also how the fans are going to react to the shock as well. [ad_2]

fanfiction where leo brings dylan to erinsborough to distract paul then gets annoyed because he's distracting paul a little too well.

Spoiler Pictures: Flashback Week and Beyond

There is a flashback to Chloe and Elly attending Paul and Terese's vow renewal

Back in the present day, on December 4th Chloe attends Erinsborough High 'save our school' protests, along with David, Aaron and Nicolette.

On December 7th, Nicolette confronts Chloe.

Pitch Black (2000)

A lads’ trip into town for this one with Matt and Chris at the Riverside cinema. I think, as a sci-fi concept action thriller, this still stands up today, although I don’t think it required the Riddick-ulous sequels - Vin Diesel is still such a funny thing to me after all these years. Anyway, I think he was well cast in this and it reminded me a little of Alien 3. I love a dirty space movie; is that a genre? I thought the line ‘I was supposed to die in France. I never even saw France.’ was quite poignant, with them being on another planet.

This was the second movie of my year to star an actor from Neighbours, in Radha Mitchell. I’ll let you work out the other. Funnily enough, it would have been three if I’d seen Gladiator on the big screen - did you know Russell Crowe was in Erinsborough in 1987? Part of me wonders how many other films on the list contain former Ramsay Street residents but then another, perhaps stronger, part of me doesn’t.

While on movie trivia, I don’t know if anyone else remembers there used to be a mini ‘text-in’ quiz on the screen before the movies and one recurring question was ‘Who played the villain in Face/Off?’ I could never work out if that was really clever or just really stupid.