Aussie actor Lily Sullivan wraps filming for Hollywood TV series Barkskins
Aussie actor Lily Sullivan is making her move after wrapping production on her first Hollywood TV series Barkskins which she landed after playing the lead role of Miranda in the critically acclaimed Foxtel series Picnic At Hanging Rock.
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Aussie actor Lily Sullivan can’t believe her luck at being a “working actor” after wrapping production on her first Hollywood TV series.
The 25-year-old has been tipped for big things since playing the lead role of Miranda in critically acclaimed Foxtel series, Picnic At Hanging Rock. And now she’s making her move.
“It was like, ‘oh shit, I am legit’,” Sullivan said of landing a lead in US TV series, Barkskins.
“For the first time ever, it is working for me, I’ve got traction. I am a working actor.”
Barkskins is a scripted TV drama for National Geographic, Disney + and Fox based on Annie Proulx’s award-winning novel of the same name.
Set in the 1600s, it also stars David Thewlis and Academy Award winner Marcia Gay Harden and will be released later this year.
“I had to do a French accent,” Sullivan declared, speaking to Confidential at the La Maison Piper-Heidsieck at the Australian Open. “Being a girl from Queensland, doing a French woman, it was a challenge and to find myself through that character not just from another time but a different accent.”
Sullivan plays Delphine in the series, which again required her to wear restrictive period costume.
“I was in a damn corset yet again,” she laughed. “I think it will be released in 172 countries or something ridiculous so it just kind of opens up the game. In this world of walls and boundaries, it just breaks down all of those walls internationally within the arts.”
Also up for Sullivan this year is starring alongside Brenton Thwaites and Joel Jackson in Luke Eve feature film, I Met A Girl and yet-to-be titled psychological thriller by Daniel Askill, who was behind Sia’s Chanelier video clip.
Sullivan’s other acting credits include television shows Camp, Romper Stomper and Rake and movies Jungle with Daniel Radcliffe and PJ Hogan’s Mental.
“I think I have no worries about embarrassing myself,” she said. “I feel like I enjoy the craft and I don’t take myself too seriously and I am grateful to be on any job. Mostly though I think I am okay with embarrassing myself.”
Asked how she manages the “ruthless” business, she added: “It is the most subjective industry. I feel like the best lesson you can possibly learn is to separate yourself from your career because it doesn’t define you. So if people are rejecting you for superficial subjective things, you cannot let that wear on you, I feel like you will have a much more peaceful life within your own turmoil.”