Actor Jackson Gallagher on why he likes roles that scare him
TWO years after quitting Home And Away, Jackson Gallagher is back on our TV screens playing one of the lead roles in Playing For Keeps. He describes what it’s like playing the role.
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TWO years after quitting Home And Away, Jackson Gallagher is back on our TV screens scaring himself.
The actor this week made his debut on new Channel 10 drama Playing For Keeps in the lead role of AFL star Connor Marrello, alongside WAG partner Tahlia, played by Olympia Valance.
“I always look for work that scares me a bit,” he explained.
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“This role, this world is something that is so far removed from where I sit naturally, so that provides quite a big challenge, and in getting ready for that there was a lot of trepidation and fear about bringing truth and honesty to that role.”
He continued: “This show has a look into the world that is very different to Home And Away, from the beaches of Summer Bay to the inner workings of a football club.”
Playing For Keeps also stars fellow former Home And Awayer Isabella Giovinazzo and Valance is an alum of rival soap Neighbours.
In the same vein as British series Footballers’ Wives, the story revolves around the players and their partners at fictional Aussie rules team the Southern Jets Football Club.
The show also stars Madeleine West, Jeremy Lindsay Taylor and Annie Maynard.
“The more I worked on this, the more my view on what it means to be masculine is changing,” Gallagher said.
“That was my own initial baulking at that — an AFL football captain and that world, it was the superficial stuff that I thought I couldn’t inhabit.
“It is my job to inhabit that and in terms of masculinity, the more work I did on Connor and the more I read the scripts, I realised that beneath all of that is a young man who I could very much relate to.”
Playing For Keeps airs on Ten on Wednesday at 8.30pm.
Originally published as Actor Jackson Gallagher on why he likes roles that scare him
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