As Bloom – a TV drama about getting a second chance at youth – launches on Stan, the Australian actor reflects on her decades in the industry
Jacki Weaver is standing in the middle of the street looking rather worse for wear. The veteran actor’s piercing blue eyes are rimmed with dark circles and her hair – brown with streaks of grey – is frizzled and wild. The pale blue nightie and slippers she has on wouldn’t seem out of the ordinary except she is wearing them in the middle of the day – a picture-perfect day, in fact, on a quiet street in the small Victorian town of Clunes, near where parts of the original Mad Max were shot many years ago.
This is a scene from Bloom, an original television show commissioned by Stan that arrives on the Australian streaming platform on 1 January. Birds are chirping and the sky is a beautiful aqua, though the tranquility of this pretty location is about to be ruined. Suffering from early-onset Alzheimer’s, Weaver’s character Gwen doesn’t exactly endear herself to people on the street when she reaches into a stranger’s pram, snatches the baby inside and keeps on walking.
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