Talking Prisoner Cell Block H EP 39 Interview with Anna Hruby (Inmate Paddy Lawson)
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- Опубликовано: 20 окт 2024
- Welcome to Episode 39 of Talking Prisoner. Hosts Ken Mulholland and Matt Batten sat down with the amazingly talented Anna Hruby who played inmate Paddy Lawson. Anna has appeared in many Australian TV shows and Movies including Seven Little Australians, The Evil Touch, The Outsiders, The Sullivans, The Young Doctors, Chopper Squad, Case for the Defence, Skyways, Cathy's Child, The Journalist, The Restless Years, Cop Shop, Sporting Chance, Bellamy, Sons and Daughters, Rafferty's Rules, The Harp in the South, Fields of Fires, Poor Man's Orange, Fragments of War: The Story of Damien Parer, E-Street, The Flying Doctors, Big Ideas, A Country Practice, G.P., Janus, Police Rescue, Heartbreak High, Children's Hospital, Fireflies, All Saints and Blood Brothers. She is also very well known for her role as Headmistress, Judith Ackroyd in Home and Away from 1999-2000. We spoke to Anna about her life growing up and what it was like to come from such a big showbusiness family with her Mum being Joy Hruby who was a Actress, Producer, Film Maker, Author, Entertainer, Comedian and Agent with a career spanning more than 50 years. Anna was able to share her memories of working on Seven Little Australians and working with Len Teale and Ruth Cracknell. We then discussed her role on The Sullivans and playing Sandy Pearce on the Young Doctors, a role that led to Anna being expelled from school. We discussed her role as Tracy Kingsford on Sons and Daughters and one her well known roles as Judith Ackroyd on Home and Away and her memories of working on that show. Anna is also a very well known voice over artist and is also known as the Telstra lady, Anna also performed a Telstra voiceover message for us live on this interview. Anna shared her memories of working on Prisoner playing Paddy Lawson and how she got the role and some very funny stories about her first day on set and an even funnier one about Sheila Florance. We talked about the great fire escape episodes and the traumatic death scene with Nola killing Paddy. Anna told us why she left Prisoner even after she was asked to stay longer and renew her contact. We covered lots about Prisoner and Anna answered all fan questions. Please like and subscribe to our RUclips Channel.
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I’m meeting Anna and Amanda in four weeks ,can’t wait.
Beautiful interview as always. Harp and Orange were my fave series from the eighties! Anna was perfect as the vulnerable Roie as was Kaarin as the feisty and cheeky Dolour. It should be archived as the greatest Australian family drama ever produced. The most lavishly cast series ever. Annie Phelan, Gwen Plumb, Melissa Jaffer. Dinah Shearing, Carol Skinner. I had only recently read the novels as a teenager when I saw it. The pages of the book leapt onto the screen as the perfect adaptation. Ruth Park would have been proud ! Perfect !
Nice one. I enjoyed the entire interview and was very interested in her comments and feedback on Prisoner, since she was in it during an iconic era! I also liked her confidence in who she is and what she can do well! It's great to see someone with good self esteem, not arrogance, just a healthy confidence in who they are. As good as the whole interview was, the biggest thrill and excitement I got out of it was when she reeled off the Telstra announcement! That was gold to hear her famous Telstra voice and see her in person doing it! Thanks so much for asking my question Matt, I didn't think it was something you'd think was worth asking! It was great! 🤣 👍👍
One Of The Best Interviews To Date
That was fabulous. What a gracious, kind and charming actress. Really pleased to see her so zen with her life as well. That’s the dream.
Ahhh awesome a shout out for Scotland!!!! Makes this born and bread scotsman very proud 😊👍🏻
Love that we have fans all the way to Scotland. How are things in Scotland at the moment ?
Meryl Streep, absolutely!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️
I’ve been looking forward to this one and Anna didn’t disappoint. One of the tough cookie and golden era characters in the lead up to the fire; superb. Thanks guys. Keep them coming! Lewis
I love the fire episodes, Did you enjoy them ?
Absolutely love them. They never grow old and are probably amongst some of the best episodes of the entire show.
Great actress as paddy lawson
What was your favourite Paddy episode ?
she comes across as a very elegant, kind and gentle person; in fact her mannerisms remind me of Gerda Nicholson
FANTASTIC interview. 👏💙
Wonderful interview with Anna Hruby.
Lovely to hear all those stories. I remember her in Seven Little Australian from my childhood. Lovely comments about her former classmates. Very down to earth person. Good to hear her mention Judith McGrath. Great interview guys. Lovely lady.
Lovely comments about her former cast members.
Absolute legend.
Gorgeous interview. Thank you for asking my question. Love these interviews. 💙
one of my fav eps was the fire episodes, i always found it haunting when Anna crawled through the duct and poor Mouse ran away to her demise.
The fire episodes still stand up to today's standard in TV in my honest opinion, they are great. What did you like about the fire episodes ? - Matt
Another fascinating interview. I wonder whether Jude Kuring would be available for one of these fabulous chats. Noeline Burke and her family were some of the best tragi-comedy characters in the series.
Another great interview. Thank you Ken and Matt.Loved that Judith Mcgrath (My absolute favourite from PCBH)was mentioned alot by Anna.
What a lovely lovely person, and so interesting.
Great interview!!! Anna is amazing and love her comments about Scotland , my home country . Great job again guys
Thanks so much Andrew. How are things in Scotland at the moment ? - Matt
@@TalkingPrisoner You are welcome. Where I am is pretty decent weatherwise ( for once ) though pretty good. Loving the interviews as I say . Hope all is well .
Yet another wonderful interview!!!
Thanks for your kind words Em.
I love that Anna is smoking during the interview!. How unapologetic and positively retro, now!! #smoko
Anna is very cool, was like watching an episode of Prisoner haha - Matt
Where is she smoking?
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This is fantastic, Paddy was one of my favourite characters in the entire run of the show. I wish she'd been in it for much longer than she was, it was only about 6 months if I remember correctly. [Incidentally I live near Tamworth in England, which definitely isn't famous for country music!]
It would have been great to see where Paddy would have gone had Anna stayed in the show longer. How are things in Tamworth ? Matt
Great interview, with Anna, thank you Matt and Ken,
She was in thee cliffhanger of all time 😁🔥🚒
Did you enjoy the fire episodes ?
@@TalkingPrisoner I love them. I remember I missed 326 and my mum was raving about what happened. I knew this old lady called Mrs Hughes who me and my sister used to be carers for. This was in 1991 in Manchester. She had the episode on tape and we borrowed her tape. The tape broke and back then with sticky tape you just fixed the vhs and so I could watch that episode. Tell you what I was horrified for Mouse.
Pretty much the only actor interviewed on Talking Prisoner who explicitly says that working with Val was a nightmare! (Others have carefully skirted around mentioning her!!) 😆
Debra Lawrance kind of touched on it by saying that there was a hierarchy or a clique in the cast when she appeared as Sally Dean. she said that there was a sofa in the green room that she sat on and someone said to her ''don't sit there, thats where Val sits!''
Anna Hruby looks fantastic 👌
Loved Paddy Lawson once she calmed down
Anna was great in poor man's orange and the harp In the South
Fantastic mini series
Poor Mans Orange and Harp in the South are fantastic. Did you enjoy the interview ?
@@TalkingPrisoner They certainly are fantastic mini series
thoroughly enjoyable interview
Anna's lovely
Brilliant interview. If Anna is reading this all the episodes are up on 10 plus 😉
Another excellent interview, Anna is really down to earth and honest with her opinions on other actresses and the state of Australian television today. I really enjoyed this chat. Interesting who Anna liked on the show, and who wasn’t quite so nice! Good to hear stories of carol skinner and Jane Clifton, both would be amazing guests! And Amanda muggleton of course (who I’ve met and am Facebook friends with) she is amazing
Couple of months ago people were putting up their list of favorite characters and I put up Paddy Lawson as one of my group . Lo and behold Anna Hruby replied with a thank you. Great thrill. Another great interview guys.
Thanks, Eugene, Is Paddy your favourite character?
@@TalkingPrisoner She is; along with the few others. I may have mentioned this before but I've always been a big fan of Margo and Jane Clifton-- wondering when you might get around to interviewing her.
It's amazing to hear how well Anna (Paddy) got on with Carole Skinner (Nola McKenzie), because like Matt said, those scenes involving Nola were truly terrifying and dark when watching back in the day!
Nola had to be Prisoner's most brutal and terrifying inmate. In one episode she bashed the living daylights out of henchwomen Lil and Jacko and left them in a heap in the cell. Nola calmly walks out and past Lizzie with the classic Prisoner horror score kicking in as Nola gently closes the cell door. Just brutal. Obviously some incredible acting work from all of them.
I loved Nola and Carole played the part so well, she was so believable and her violent scenes were brutal. Its amazing to go back and watch those episodes again.
@@TalkingPrisoner Absolutely! To hear Anna saying that Carole was so concerned about her during the drowning scene is just had to fathom! That was a truly evil scene. Amazing actors!
Nah, Nola is definitely up there on the list for sure, but I think Bev Baker was more terrifying. She was a murderer with no remorse and had a stigma to her even darker and unredeemable than Nola. I wondered how she would have faired had she stayed on longer, but her short arc was truly one for the books.
@@devontehuntley6274 She was definitely a freaky character, just didn't quite have that scary witch face and brute muscle like Nola, though. There were a couple of dangerous inmates... Ruth Ballinger another. I don't include Lou Kelly in that group, despite her hanging execution. What impressed me with Nola was how she randomly took out Paddy Lawson so coldly, but would have done the same to anyone, including Bea Smith had it have been her who entered the washroom. Nola was not intimidated by Smith or The Freak, or anyone, in the slightest!
@@josephd.2725 I think Bev looked more like a witch than Nola. Her face screams Wicked Witch of the West from the 1939 Wizard of Oz movie. I found Nola to look ghastly, but not witchy. Ruth was dangerous on a subtle side since she mostly had other people do her work. She was too mellow to really carry out any brutality on her own. She was your average posh uppity woman who sat in the head chair and made the commands. Bev and Nola got their hands dirty and looked the part. Lou was just reckless and out for attention, not exactly downright wicked and dangerous. She slipped up in the end in perhaps the weakest way to show how vulnerable she truly was on the inside. Nope, Nola wasn't intimidated at all. Just a shame Carol Skinner decided to take an early leave after her contract was up to do other things. I would have loved to see what more she would have done. There were plans to make her top dog succeeding Bea once she left the show.
I hold Paddy quite dear to my heart as she was introduced in the first episode of Prisoner I ever watched! To me she was part of the 'original cast'!
Loving these interviews - I normally listen on spotify and this interview cut off! But meant I had to watch here, nice to see Anna Hruby looking so well....I think her mum had a small part in the Bride of Christ (great show!)
Did the interview on Spotify cut off ?
Another grand slam. So nice to get to meet Anna here !
Looking forward to the Collette Mann interview. I'm actually surprised she agreed to do "Talking Prisoner". I saw another interview with her very soon after the last Prisoner event in Melbourne and she wasnt very complimentary about it and cited she would never do another one. Seems she's had a falling out with Val Lehman over it. Such a shame as I think they used to be close. Be good to get some gossip . Lol.
Did you watch the interview with Colette Mann ?
@@TalkingPrisoner sure did. Really enjoyed it. You get the impression prisoner for her is a double edged sword. She seems a little resentful almost. But I love Collette, seems like a great lady.
When is the Doreen and Rita The Beater interviews?
Right at the end of the video - the Meryl Streep comparison, I totally agree, Anna does resemble her a bit. More than a bit in fact.
Would also love to see a interview with the actress who played Barbra Fields who arrived with paddy also involved in the fire episode s loved this interview tho thanks agàin
@talkingprisoner do you guys have a list of addresses for sending fan mail to all the cast members you interview? If not have you considered adding these to your web page as alot of us blockies would love to send to our favourites but have no clue where to even find any contact info for these actors.
Another excellent interview guys. Thank you
Thanks for your kind words. I am working on the Buy Up shop on the Talking Prisoner website as we speak. I will announce soon - Matt
I know what a lot of people do is check the actors agency website and it does have their PO Box and you PO Box the agency website or send them an email with the actors name. But with covid and stuff a lot of managements have been sending it back, probably back to normal now, but Anna here mentioned she was repped by RMK management so you just get the address from the RMK website, PO box RMK with her name and she should get it, might take a month or two depending on how often management check po boxes :)
Is it possible to watch all the other shows that Anna has been in over the years? I hope so.
I am sure many of them are available to watch
And of course The Sullivans and The Young Doctors!
And the awful situation of Australian television these days! I grew up with the cop shows, Homicide, Division 4, Matlock Police. I loved telly in the seventies, eighties. Cop Shop, The Restless Years, Skyways, Prisoner, I even loved Arcade and Holiday Island ! What have we now - NOTHING ! I switched off network telly twenty years ago !!
i think we can all agree Val is polarising person, but i cant help to like her. I read somewhere of 'the tunnel' being like the greenroom and some issue happening there between Val and another cast member(s). I think Rowenna Wallace.
I even remember the unisexers, class of 75, number 96, the box !
I liked the episode where paddy overcame her fear of the dark
damn she still looks young =)
I wish i knew her secret haha - Matt
@@TalkingPrisoner Its the water! Lots of people don't look like they've aged after the show
Hi matt and Ken please please try and get a interview with roseanne hull brown or carol skinner keep up the good work xxxx
Thanks for your kind words Paul. Which interview have you enjoyed the most so far ?
What a lovely lady.
Great interview, only thing I am thinking is that Paddy arrives with Barbara Fields not Margot Gaffney although Anna said she remembers that scene vividly.
There were scenes with her and Margo too, where she let rip on Margo. The thing is, they may have filmed the takes out of sequence? Maybe her first day on set was doing scenes with Margo. Barbara Fields was hot, by the way. One of the most beautiful with Tracey Morris and Julie Egbert!
I think from memory some scenes were shot out of sequence as i have learnt from some of the cast.
@@TalkingPrisoner The memory can also play little tricks on you sometimes when thinking back 30 or more years ago!
Nice to see she didn't hold back with her opinion on the state of TV these days! It's like she turned into Louise Siversen for a minute! lol But she's absolutely right... Most of this so-called reality TV is absolute vacuous, talentless sell-out rubbish. 💩