Aussie actor Lachy Hulme’s surprising plastic surgery confession

Logie-winning Australian actor Lachy Hulme made a surprising admission about his use of cosmetic surgery live on air this morning.

Aussie actor Lachy Hulme made a surprising admission about his use of plastic surgery on air this morning, revealing he’d undergone painful cosmetic lip injections.

The Offspring star wasn’t trying to pass for a Kardashian, though — it was in preparation for his role as media magnate Kerry Packer in the 2012 Logie-winning miniseries Howzat! Kerry Packer’s War.

Hulme, 48, revealed the extreme measures he undertook to resemble Packer during an interview on 2DayFM breakfast with Grant, Ed and Ash today.

Hulme sans fillers.

‘Trout pout’: As Kerry Packer in Howzat!

“The thing about Kerry — handsome devil that he was — he had this incredible ‘trout pout’. We found this plastic surgeon in Melbourne … It’s the Real Housewives of Melbourne thing where they get the big lips put in,” said Hulme.

The actor revealed that, unlike the Real Housewives, he wanted the lip fillers “sucked out” of his lips as soon as filming wrapped on the show. He estimate he’d had about “150” tiny injections to plump his lips for the role — then another 60 or so to have the filler dissolved.

Hulme went full method for his role as Kerry Packer.

“I hate needles, but getting the stuff put in didn’t bother me because I thought, ‘I’m gonna look like Kerry’. And I did, so you’ve got that goal in front of you.

“But getting the injections to dissolve the stuff, my god … They had to hold me down. I was screaming like a maniac.”

Elsewhere in the interview, Hulme opened up about his tenure as series regular Dr Martin Clegg in the popular Ten drama Offspring — and his character’s unusual accent.

Hulme with Asher Keddie on Offspring. Picture: Channel 10

“If you go back and watch the first episode of the first season, they would not let me do the creepy English accent. I said to them, ‘Look, I am going to do an English accent from episode two onwards, and I’ll redub the first episode’, and they never took me up on that,” he revealed.

Hulme said that when the director who’d shot the first episode returned later in the season and heard him using an English accent, “she thought I was joking”.