I saw Asher Keddie at the supermarket!
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Well, for those of you who don’t know (and I don’t really expect you all to know), Asher Keddie is an Australian actress who I have seen perform a couple of times (pictured right with some man wearing waaay too much makeup). She’s currently making it in television, working on Love My Way, but she has also done a lot of really good theatre. The Ishmael Club, Cyrano de Bergerac, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, plus things that I didn’t see like Chekhov, Williamson, et cetera.
To be fair, I did see two of her plays in VCE and was rather merciless when picking apart her performance. Perhaps I don’t agree with her interpretation all the time, but I certainly admire the way she is climbing her way up the dramatic hierarchy in Australia. She is doing what I wish I was doing already, and hope to be doing very very soon.
Anyway, back to the supermarket. I was standing there with my Mum, waiting at the checkout. There was a thin blonde woman with BIG sunglasses on in front of us; she looked familiar but I wasn’t sure where from. I subtly studied her for a little while until it hit me – “Oh my God Mum, that’s Asher Keddie!!!”. Whispered, of course. I was literally a metre and a half away from this woman that I had previously only seen from .. well, lots of metres as she performed on a stage and I merely watched. I was terrified that it might not be her, but then I noticed she was wearing a little diamante ‘A’ intial necklace. The deal was sealed – it was definitely Asher Keddie.
She was buying, among other things, juice and toilet paper. A lot of toilet paper. I’m not sure why she should need so much – perhaps she’s going to a fancy dress party as a mummy? Or maybe she wants to toilet-paper someone’s house? I don’t know, but my brush with local semi-celebrity was enough excitement for one day!
Demosthenes said,
February 7, 2007 at 2:15 am
Just goes to show that deep down, buried beneath many layers of weirdness, celebs are the same as any of us.
As to your invite to Australia, you have no idea how much I’d love to take that seriously. I split three and a half weeks between New Zealand and Australia, sans parents, four years ago, and they still rank as some of the best weeks of my life. I’d like nothing more than to go back!
Anonymous said,
February 7, 2007 at 4:16 pm
I may be able to offer an explanation with regard to your curiosity. Coles has a killer deal going on Sorbent this week.
Rose said,
February 8, 2007 at 12:53 am
Demosthenes – You should come! You could stay at my house and I could cook for you, take you to the markets.. we could dress up in incredibly over-the-top evening wear and go to the opera.. we could go and eat all the scary things in Chinatown that I’ve always been too scared to eat..
Come, please!
Anonymous – *laughs* Mmm.. perhaps I should buy some myself then. I just realised when you commented, that upon moving into my new apartment I will actually have to buy toilet paper for the first time EVER. It will certainly be a momentous occasion!