When Lisa McCune was 9 years previous, she wrote to the producers of US household sci-fi collection Misplaced in House asking if she may very well be on the present. She remembers dressing up in silver outfits earlier than faculty to observe the extra-terrestrial adventures of the Robinson household. Physician Who was her after-school staple.
Flash ahead to 2024, and the four-time Gold Logie-winning actress, who nonetheless has that letter her mom by no means despatched, has ultimately scored a sci-fi position. Ezme, from the planet Astorad, in ABC ME’s Planet Lulin, can be McCune’s youngsters’s tv debut, and marks her first time enjoying a grandmother.
Lisa McCune’skooky wardrobe was impressed by British style figures Trinny Woodall and Vivienne Westwood.
“It was so humorous as a result of [former Blue Heelers producer] Pennie Brown was frightened about posing the concept of enjoying a grandmother to me,” says McCune, laughing. “Nevertheless it’s beautiful that they didn’t make her into the type of grandmother that wears thick stockings and heavy sneakers. She’s dynamic, and he or she has to put on gloves on a regular basis as a result of she has a lot energy that she’s going to blow issues up if she’s not cautious.”
The eccentric matriarch, who has a factor for backyard gnomes, cares for her granddaughter Lulin (Nina Gallas), a half-human, half Astoradian 12-year-old, whose mom was taken by an evil power. Attempting to slot in on Earth, Ezme concocts a kooky wardrobe (courtesy of costume designer Kate Camilleri). For inspiration for the character, McCune seemed to 2 British style icons.
“That is going to sound actually bonkers, however I knew Ezme was going to go down this outrageous street of constructing her personal outfits,” says McCune. “So I began watching a little bit of Trinny [Woodall]. The opposite inspiration was Vivienne Westwood. Ezme builds issues from nothing. She finds one thing in a children’ playground and makes use of it as an outfit, so she spends her time being artful in a extremely magical manner.”
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The story, by Melanie Sano, follows Lulin’s bid to win the college science competitors, simply as her mom as soon as did, battling bullies and alien invaders alongside the way in which. The grownup forged contains Aunty Donna’s Zachary Ruane and Virginia Homosexual. Probably the most established of the kid actors is Cassie Robb, who starred in The Clearing and who fills a number of alien roles.
“The celebs of the present are the children,” says McCune. “They’re phenomenal and so they had a genuinely stunning time and went down the inventive street in a manner that you just actually do consider. They have been spectacular to work with.”
Some heavy themes run alongside the intergalactic journey.