From Summer Bay to the footy field, life after Home and Away for Isabella Giovinazzo
ISABELLA Giovinazzo has swapped the beaches of Summer Bay life as a WAG on the sideline of the the footy field.
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ISABELLA Giovinazzo has swapped the beaches of Summer Bay life as a WAG on the sideline of the the footy field.
Having played Phoebe Nicholson on iconic Aussie soap Home and Away for four years up until last year, the 28-year-old actor is sinking her teeth into a different world on new TV drama, Playing For Keeps.
“This is my next big project since Home and Away and I couldn’t have picked a better one,” Giovinazzo told The Daily Telegraph.
“It is really fun starting a show from the ground up. The content is totally different. It is still about relationships and families and drama but with this show it has a very specific backdrop, which is Aussie Rules. It is specifically about five women behind the families and each of them is pretty intense and feisty in their own different ways and so we follow their stories.”
Playing For Keeps is a Channel 10 drama being shot in Melbourne, based around the lives of the players of the Southern Jets Football Club (SJFC) and their wives and girlfriends.
Giovinazzo plays Jessie Davies, wife of star player Jack, played by James Mason. The series is currently in production in Melbourne and also stars Madeleine West, Annie Maynard, Olympia Valance and Jeremy Lindsay Taylor.
The show sees Giovinazzo reunite on screen with former Home and Away castmate Jackson Gallagher, who plays footballer Connor Marrello.
“I am learning a lot about being a strong woman from playing this character,” Giovinazzo said, adding that while Aussie Rules provides the backdrop, it could be any sport on screen. “It could be any code of sport. It is the world of elite sports and it is the families living in that world and it is strong, take it by the balls people dealing with some crazy stuff.”
Gallagher is also enjoying life after Home and Away.
“This show has a look into a world that is very different from the Home and Away world, from the Summer Bay beaches to the inner workings of a football club,” he said. “I guess like all good dramas are relationship based so they both have that.”