Not Suitable For Children, a new Australian comedy, opens on July 19, starring Ryan Kwanten as Jonah, a party-loving twenty-something who discovers he has testicular cancer and only weeks to have kids before his surgery.
by Jessica Chandra
Not Suitable For Children, a new Australian comedy, opens on July 19, starring Ryan Kwanten as Jonah, a party-loving twenty-something who discovers he has testicular cancer and only weeks to have kids before his surgery. He turns to his friend and housemate Stevie, played by rising talent Sarah Snook, who goes along with his plan to find someone to have babies with — until she becomes part of the plan. We caught up with Sarah last week to chat about working with Ryan, filming interesting scenes with kids, and how she feels about being called Australia’s answer to Emma Stone.
What attracted you to the role of Stevie?
When I first read the script I was just really excited that this kind of film could be made in Australia, and be made really well. Knowing that I’d be working with Peter [Templeman], who’s an Oscar-nominated director for his short The Saviour, I was pretty excited. As for Stevie, as a character she’s a badass chick [laughs]. She can hold her own and she’s got her own thing going on. She’s one of the boys, a tomboy a bit, but she’s still a woman and doing her thing. That’s what I really liked.
Did you bring any of yourself to the character?
Yeah. In the end I couldn’t avoid doing that, in a way, because they began to make Stevie a little more like myself, in a way to make it more natural. But I’m still Sarah and she’s still Stevie.
More from Sarah when you keep reading.
