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Debra Lawrance joins Tak for a warm, candid and deeply personal conversation about Home and Away, Neighbours, Please Like Me, nearly 50 years in acting, learning to listen to her body, surviving the industry and the moment she finally became Debra rather than simply Pippa.


What we get into:

· Stepping away from the Steel Magnolias tour

· Why actors push through illness and exhaustion

· Learning to rest after nearly 50 years in the industry

· Discovering acting and leaving Melbourne for NIDA

· Training alongside Judy Davis, Mel Gibson and Steve Bisley

· Learning not to envy another actor’s success

· Missing a major role and the advice that stayed with her

· Taking time away from acting for family

· Returning through Blue Heelers

· Life after Pippa and becoming Debra Lawrance

· The responsibility and social impact of television

· Please Like Me and telling stories without labels

· Coaching young actors on Neighbours

· Jackie Woodburne, Alan Fletcher and on-set mentorship

· Playing Liz Conway and crossing from Summer Bay to Ramsay Street

· Working through grief while filming Home and Away

· Signs, dreams and unexplained moments after loss

· Acting coaching, career mindset and creating your own work


just tak. is an interview platform dedicated to unmasking the reality of the creative industry. Hosted by Australian actor and presenter Takaya Honda, the show strips away the polished PR narratives to ask the most important question in performance: Why?


Support Just Tak on Patreon:

https://Patreon.com/justtak


Promotion / Links:

Debra Lawrance on IMDb

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0492592/


Watch Please Like Me

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2155025/


Sponsors:

BeautyBoat.com: use code BIN25 for 25% off your entire order.

https://beautyboat.com/

RØDE: thanks for the mics making us sound so good.


Support:

If you’re having a tough time, please don’t struggle alone.

Australia: Lifeline 13 11 14, 24/7 crisis support and suicide prevention. If life is in danger, call 000.

United Kingdom: Text Shout to 85258 for free, confidential 24/7 crisis text support. If you are in immediate danger, call 999.



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