How to Hold Space for your Actors

Originally trained as an actor, film director Kim Farrant shares deep wisdom about getting the best from performers.
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‘I’ll be the container that you can unravel in.’ Director Kim Farrant and actor Noomi Rapace on the Melbourne set of Angel of Mine. Courtesy of R&R Films.

‘I think a lot of directors are frightened of actors,’ says Kim Farrant, who doesn’t seem frightened at all, even in the presence of big stars like Nicole Kidman, who appeared in her directorial debut feature Strangerland in 2015. In Farrant’s latest film, the psychological thriller Angel of Mine, she worked  intimately with actors including Noomi Rapace (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), Yvonne Strahovski (The Handmaid’s Tale) and Richard Roxburgh (Rake).

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Rochelle Siemienowicz is the ArtsHub Group's Education and Career Editor. She was previously a journalist for Screenhub and is a writer, film critic and cultural commentator with a PhD in Australian cinema. She was the co-host of Australia's longest-running film podcast 'Hell is for Hyphenates' and has written a memoir, Fallen, published by Affirm Press. Her second book, Double Happiness, a novel, will be published by Midnight Sun in 2024. Instagram: @Rochelle_Rochelle Twitter: @Milan2Pinsk