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| BROOKE SATCHWELL: IM A SURVIVOR (13/04/2012) |
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Five years after he pleaded guilty to assaulting her, Brooke Satchwell has opened up to WHO about her troubled ex-boyfriend, actor Matthew Newton, saying she finds his public unravelling \'incredibly sad\'. The couple were living together in the Sydney suburb of Rozelle when the assault occurred in 2006, but despite Newton, 35, admitting he had punched Satchwell in the face and gouged her eyes, his conviction was quashed on appeal. Now, as the son of veteran star Bert Newton waits to see if he will receive a criminal conviction following his arrest in Miami, Florida, on April 6 for resisting a police officer and trespassing, Satchwell, 31, has opened up the embattled man who was her partner for five years. “I just find the whole thing incredibly sad,” says the straight-talking actress,whose April 17 debut as Frankie, an electrician, on Packed to the Rafters will mark her return to network television following a three-year hiatus. “I invested a large chunk of my life and,” she pauses, “I just find it sad.” Newton’s ever-growing rap sheet is well-chronicled: in 2011 he was charged with assaulting a taxi driver and in 2010, another former girlfriend, actress Rachel Taylor, took out an apprehended violence order against him after he allegedly assaulted her in a Rome hotel. How disturbing is it for Satchwell to watch his deterioration? “I just know that I am incredibly grateful to wake up in my shoes, and that the prospect of waking up in another pair could be very confronting,” she reveals. Satchwell says her current partner, film editor Dave Gross, helped her overcome the violent end to her relationship with Newton. “I think after an experience like that it takes a little while to find the baseline again. The most beautiful revelation about this relationship is that all the things I was certain in my guts were the way it was meant to be, are actually true.” Article Source: WHO MAGAZINE | ||||||
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| WELCOME BACK, BROOKE SATCHWELL (22/03/2112) |
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I've made my feelings about Packed To The Rafters clear a number of times throughout my tenure at TheVine. It's one of those 'good enough' shows that I'll watch if I happen to sit down in front of it; it's capable of being quite moving, but is more generally fairly generic family dramedy. It's certainly the best of a bad bunch (and a very small bunch at that), though that's not saying a lot. HOWEVER. There is one way to get me to watch a TV show - any TV show - and that's by casting actors I like to watch. And in casting Cameron Daddo and, particularly, Brooke Satchwell as part of the 2012 lineup, it's very possible I may just watch me some Packed To The Rafters this year. (On the Daddo note, I've loved him since I went to see him play Huck Finn in Big River: The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn - twice - in 1989 at Her Majesty's Theatre, and I have fond memories of the golden era of the Daddofication of Australian television, so I'm always happy to see him back on tele.) Here's the word on Satchwell's character from Rafters HQ: 'Her character 'Frankie' was a real tomboy growing up and loved accompanying her dad on jobs. He was an electrician and she was the son he never had (sadly he died recently). Frankie can’t remember ever wanting to be anything else and it was in the small family business that she was apprenticed and where she has worked for the bulk of her sparkie career. As a woman in a predominantly male industry Frankie has had years of experience with varying degrees of sexism, and handles it all with resigned good humour. To her it’s water off a duck’s back.' It'll be interesting to see if this means Rafters is going to tackle workplace sexism head-on; my instinct is that it's more likely the 'water off a duck's back' line means that Frankie will just bear the brunt of the Rafters doods' boofheadedness, but I'm willing to be proven wrong (Satchwell seems to be hinting at the potential for some harder-hitting storylines here, saying 'The fact it provides a forum for things to be discussed means that it can delve into some more confronting areas'). If the showrunners do decide to take a more serious route, there's no doubt they've hired an actress who can do the subject matter justice. I've long been a fan of Satchwell's work, ever since the 1998 season finale of Neighbours, which dealt with the aftermath of Anne's decision to finally bonk Billy (in a tent, no less) and somehow led to a flood and Joel nearly getting drowned in a river: Since then I've been a keen follower of her work, particularly on Play School - and as a one-eyed 'John and Benita-era' fan, that's no faint praise. She has an ease and a natural quality that many of her peers lack, not to mention stepping up to wear the 'best eyebrows in the game' crown since Isabel Lucas got crazy with the Tweezerman. (I'm sure that at this point you may feel like this blog is missing something - or rather, missing a mention of someone. Well tough tits: I'm here to praise Satchwell's acting skills, not continue to cast her as the tragic victim like the majority of this country's tabloids seem so fond of doing.) Her presence on our screens has been sorely missed, and given that her last major project, 2008's Canal Road, seemed to disappear without a trace, at least the established ratings power of Packed To The Rafters means, as long as she's not electrocuted or beheaded by a rogue piece of guttering, Frankie/Satchwell should stay on our screens for a while yet. I feel like everything is once again right with the Australian TV universe. Article Source: THE VINE | ||||||
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| RAFTERS NEW FACE (19/03/2012) |
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From: National Features March 19, 2012 7:00PM BROOKE Satchwell has put years of turmoil behind her and is back ontelevision at last. Brooke Satchwell hasn't been asked to do a 'sexy face' at a shootin four years. She's standing barefoot in a simple navy dress, her hairgathered loosely in a bun, her eyes heavily lined and her lips pale. She stopsmoving for the camera and asks, 'Should I be using my arms?' 'For what?' the photographer says, deadpan. A few days later, I'm sitting in a cafe with Satchwell. More at ease in aT-shirt, shorts, thongs and no make-up, she admits that when she started out inthe industry 15 years ago, on Neighbours, she was relaxed in photoshootsbecause she didn't know any better. 'As the years progressed, I went downhill and became more rigid andtense. I guess that knocked my self-confidence a bit,' she explains. For our shoot, she eventually nailed her 'sexyface' when she was talking about, of all things, her drum kit. 'I wasdistracted. And a great shot is about being in the moment.' The reason for her return to the spotlight is her new role on Packed to theRafters. She plays Frankie, an electrician who joins the Rafters' familybusiness. After almost three years of steering clear of work in front of thecamera, Satchwell couldn't shake the acting bug. 'I love what I do and life keeps kicking me back in the ring,' shesays. 'Regardless of how far I wander in various directions, theseopportunities keep coming up.' Her last stint on the small screen was in 2008's short-lived drama Canal Road. Towards the end of her20s, the 31-year-old found herself questioning if acting was right for her. 'I've thought about [giving it up] a lot over the years. I started doingit when I was 15, when most people are just deciding what they want to be whenthey grow up,' she says. 'I tend to do things in a backwardssequence, which wreaks havoc on my confidence because sometimes I feel I'vereached the top of the skyscraper without having laid the foundations.' 'There was a period when I honestly wouldn't have paid me to do what I wasdoing. I have a strong bulls*** detector and I couldn't justify the feedback Iwas getting.' After finding the courage to walk away from onscreen roles, Satchwellvolunteered behind the camera as a 'dogsbody' on various productions. 'I love cinematography - it fascinates me,' she says. 'When weput on Christmas concerts as kids, I was pulling the strings behind-the-scenesand my cousins and sister were dressed up out front; it's ironic this ended upas my day job.' Her experience behind the camera shows when she's onset, says Rafters co-starSamantha Tolj, who plays Frankie's best friend, Sian.'You can see it in the way Brooke relates to the cast and crew; she's thefurthest thing from a diva.' Off the Rafters set, the two women are close, too, with Tolj often poppinground to the Sydneyhouse Satchwell shares with her boyfriend, film editor David Gross. 'Brooke is an energetic, vibrant, vital woman,' Tolj says. 'I'mdrawn to having someone like her in my life. Plus, she's fun and she makes melaugh.' Talking to the happy, relaxed Satchwell as she sips her coffee, the turbulentperiods she's endured - her former partner, Matthew Newton, was convicted ofassaulting her in 2007 (the ruling was later overturned), and the next year shenarrowly escaped the gunmen in the Mumbai terrorist attacks - aren't an obviousburden. Though difficult, these incidents haven't altered her world view a great deal.'I often read about people who have had these moments in life and they'vebeen quite a catalyst. But for me, personally, I didn't really find that,'she says. 'I'm learning that sometimes you don't have all the information and youhave to walk through it a bit further to see how you feel or where you're at.Now the dust is settling, I feel stronger in myself, which is a really nicething that coincides with hitting my 30s.' She's previously said she regretted trying to take responsibility for Newton. Is she morecareful with her autonomy in relationships now? 'Absolutely,' she says. 'I think that comes with growing up aswell. But I've always prioritised my relationships and will continue to doso.' An extreme situation such as the Mumbai attacks, which she and Gross wentthrough together early in their relationship, either 'draws people closeror pulls them apart' she says. 'We're pleased we knew how we feltabout each other prior to that and it wasn't just a result of post-traumaticstress,' she laughs. Satchwell has spent the past year renovating her house, and there's a puppywaiting for her at home, so will marriage and babies complete her picture ofdomestic bliss soon? 'Oh, God,' she rolls her eyes. 'I've never been one to imaginethe dress or any of that stuff.' Focusing on her health is one of her goals this year. 'I swim every dayand eat well,' she says. 'I'm doing a lot of things that, in thepast, from a naive point of view, I would've looked at people and thought, youwanker. But I've cut out processed foods and found I'm a lot calmer and myenergy levels are up.' As we wrap up, I ask Satchwell what she does for fun. 'I'm keen to go toTornado Alley [in America's Midwest] this year, and it's a possibility because we havea production break over the season I was hoping to go.' Hang on, why? 'Because I love storms. When we were kids, Dad would get usout of bed at 3am and take us to Arthurs Seat on the Mornington Peninsulato watch the storms coming over the bay. It's the thing that makes me giddy; ifthere's a thunderstorm, don't talk to me.' * Seven Network's Packed to the Rafters returns to air next month. Article Source: PERTH NOW – SUNDAY TIMES | ||||||
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| BROOKE SATCHWELL'S PACKED WITH HAPPINESS (13/02/2012) |
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February 13, 2012 BROOKE Satchwell has emerged from the darkness to announce that she has never been happier. Satchwell - so distressed by the end of her relationship with Newton in 2006 and the trauma of Mumbai that she felt little desire to pursue acting jobs that would place her in the public spotlight - returns to TV with a role on Packed to the Rafters. She is also so happy in a relationship with film editor David Gross that she's even discussing marriage and babies. 'Dave and I had this interstate relationship, but we are now renovating a house (in Sydney) and living this grown-up life,' Satchwell, 31, said. 'All I get asked about now is marriage and babies ... I would like that in future.' A settled life seemed unimaginable five years ago, when a court was told how Newton had pushed and punched Satchwell in the home they shared in Rozelle. 'In darker moments in my life I have thought I could go somewhere different and not do this job,' Satchwell said. She became loath to chase work when she was in the headlines. 'For sure, there have been periods when I felt like that because of all the attention (over Newton). 'It's been a real frustration because the line has been blurred (between media interest in her personal and working life).' She also says being caught up in the destruction of the 2008 Mumbai massacre has made her stronger. Article Source: HERALD SUN | ||||||
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| PACKED TO THE RAFTERS FOR BROOKE (28/10/2011) |
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The former Neighbours star has inked a new deal with Channel 7 to appear in Packed To The Rafters, Confidential has learned. On set sources of the family drama say writers are hoping to use the 30-year-old to fill a void left by the departure of favourite Jessica Marais and the popular Zoe Ventoura. 'She's a lovely girl and talented - she will play a main part,' the Rafters insider spilled. Seven yesterday confirmed the Logie nominee best known for her role as Anne Wilkinson in Neighbours in the '90s had spent the past few weeks filming a 'guest role' and that it was 'too early' to elaborate. So impressed were they with her performance, we hear Satchwell has been asked to stay on. The country girl from Victoria will be a useful marketing tool for the show come 2011, after it abruptly and prematurely was pulled off air this week amid rumours that original cast members Hugh Sheridan and Angus McLaren will leave the series. Satchwell returned to the big screen in 2009 alongside Gary Sweet in blue collar comedy Subdivision and then surprised many in the industry with an appearance on Talkin' Bout Your Generation last year. Article Source: HERALD SUN | ||||||
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