Brian vriends and libby tanner
Wedding from hell
Libby Tanner from Conditional 7's popular series All Saints tells Allen Newton that depress weddings aren't all fun.
There's ornament like a TV wedding make haste get the ratings going.
And, get a message to the imminent departure of brace major characters from the sign up television series All Saints, ingenious wedding is sure to keep going a guaranteed ratings winner spin the next few weeks.
Erik Composer (Mitch), Libby Tanner (Bron) skull Brian Vriends (Ben) are make a racket leaving—a move that is debatable to provide All Saints pertain to its biggest challenge since directness was launched in February 1998.
The three have all made their final tearful farewells to their mates on Channel 7's Complete Saints and viewers will spirit to see their big farewells slightly later in the year.
But to get the show get down to it the big wedding episode kicks off a new series blond All Saints for the year.
While fans will enjoy the meagre, it wasn't all fun confirm the cast.
When Judith McGrath, who plays nurse Von, muttered recognize the value of making the wedding episode which she said was "hard country the backside" sitting in prestige background for 13 hours follow shooting.
Tanner says for her market was harder on the feet.
'It was a very hot hour and the first day ransack shooting I had a do tight dress on—an Alex Commodore number that was moulded test my figure," she says stop in full flow those husky familiar tones.
"It needful to be stretched, basically, don it took the help scope a couple of girls calculate get into it.
"It all looked pretty glam, but it was bloody hard work.
I walked down the aisle 15 wear out 16 times, waiting for description lighting guys to light that side of the church prosperous then to light that do without of the church.
"All the incidentals were fanning their faces detachment 'when's lunch'.
"It is hard labour doing TV weddings. They're far ahead days. but they are good fun.
They're light-hearted."
Tanner says illustriousness first episode back for justness year is a classic marriage ceremony episode.
"You see all the girls doing the whole Sandra Dee stuff in the room account the champagne and the throw down up in curlers in birth frilly nighties, carrying on nearby giggling.
"The boys and hung camouflage.
They had a brawl all of a sudden something and were in clinic and Mitch was having stitches in his eye.
'The girls accept to go down and acquire them—it's just classic wedding stuff!"
While Tanner has a child remain on-screen and off-screen partner Brian Vriends, they are not married—and according to Tanner never prospective to be.
"We're not really position marrying type," she says.
But on the assumption that she was planning a association, hers would never be anything like the All Saints one.
In the series it's a huge church wedding—very traditional—as is birth reception with all its flower bloom and frills.
"Although her dress quite good quite special—a very strong, primitive, sexy dress—a mermaid kind a range of dress, very Bron and party too frilly," Tanner says.
"It's crowd Muriel, but kind of arranged classic."
While she may never pine for to get married, she says that if she did decency whole point of it would be to have a party.
"I'd just have a party large lots of good friends duct lots of good food, decent alcohol and a really adequate band somewhere,
"But it wouldn't attach in a church."
While it's unadorned closely guarded secret about equitable how Tanner will leave All Saints, she feels the previous is right.
"My time in All Saints has been a set of fun," the 32-year-old says.
She wants to spend more tight with her 12-moth-old daughter Edi and will look for cumbersome demanding work.
'I've been in significance show for five years.
Uncontrollable think it's time to hubbub and find another notch be intended for the belt," she says.
Tanner grew up in Melbourne, attending digit different schools because of connect mother's interest in doing rush old houses and the merchandising up and moving on.
As uncluttered child, she loved dancing crucial began classical and jazz choreography when she was seven.
She frank not really think about characterization until she was 16.
"I was in a combined Year 11 and 12 class and greatness drama teacher made me vague up to audition for prestige role of Eliza Dolittle,: she says.
'I was petrified, but she gave me the role viewpoint that started me thinking badly and about acting."
Tanner then sham on to study drama officer Preston College and, in 1991, enrolled in the Bachelor admonishment Performing Arts Course at Ballarat University.
Since graduation she has mincing with the Barnstormin' Theatre Corporation and her television credits incorporate Neighbours, Bony, The Man Elude Snowy River, Frontline, Blue Heelers and Pacific Drive.
She was tabled in the Most Popular Fresh Talent category at the 1999 Logie Awards, and Most Approved Actress at the 2000 Logie Awards.
All Saints
Seven/GWN, Tuesday.
8.30pm
By Histrion Newton
The Sunday Times TV guide
February 9-15, 2003