SA-born actress Sarah Snook talks about life in lockdown, growing up in Adelaide on hit US podcast WTF with Marc Maron
South Australia’s own Sarah Snook has spoken about growing up in Adelaide, laying low in Australia during the pandemic and the hugely-anticipated return of the hit HBO series Succession.
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Hollywood superstar Sarah Snook has opened up about her Adelaide upbringing, being trapped in Australia during the pandemic and the impact of the coronavirus on the much-anticipated third season of her hit HBO show Succession.
Snook, 32, who lives in New York, was speaking to Marc Maron on his hugely popular podcast WTF from Melbourne where the Adelaide-born actor has been “stuck” since March.
“I’ve lived in Melbourne this year, out of a suitcase, because I got stuck here at the beginning of the pandemic,” said Snook, who rocketed to stardom off the back of her Emmy-award-nominated performance as Shiv Roy in Succession.
Snook also co- stars in the new film An American Pickle with Seth Rogen.
“I’m at my friend’s house living off the kindness of my friends, out of my suitcase and I do feel very isolated like I’m on a different planet.”
Snook said she could have returned to the US sooner but “things were exploding there and I was like, well, you know, maybe I’ll just lay low in Melbourne for a bit - and that was March.”
Also, production of the next season of Succession is in limbo, with scripts still being written and plot lines set in other countries being reconsidered amid the uncertainty.
“We’re stuck waiting to begin again,” Snook said.
“We’re still in this conversation of no, no, no we’re gonna begin, we’re gonna begin, we just don’t know when.”
“We were meant to go to like Italy and Dubai I think but I don’t know what’s going to happen with that, that’s all being recalibrated I guess.”
Asked about her childhood, Snook told Maron growing up in Adelaide was like living in a “big country town in a lot of ways”.
“The first question people ask in Adelaide is oh well yeah, ‘what school did you go to?
“And then you would know somebody from that school or somebody who went to that school and therefore you would know their brother or sister, you’re always trying to work out how you’re related somehow.”
“I grew up next to a national park, in the (Adelaide) Hills and, you know, I always felt like I was really distant.
“Like, when my mum moved in with my step dad it was in the north of Adelaide and we grew up in the south of Adelaide and I remember thinking, ‘oh, no friends are gonna visit me, it’s so far away’ and I was there recently, like two years ago and drove from that area, from Prospect to the Hills - it’s 20 minutes, 25 minutes, not that far at all,” she laughed.
In the hour-long chat, Snook - the youngest of three girls - also revealed how her mother’s job as representative for Disney films was “instrumental” in shaping her love of film and television.
“I got a first look at The Little Mermaid and The Lion King and Aladdin and I would sit in the rumpus room...watching Disney films back to back and on repeat and crying every time Simba’s dad died”. “I think this was pretty instrumental”.