Double Trouble ALICE FOULCHER AND GREGORY ERDSTEIN ON THAT’S NOT ME

There comes a time in many, if not all, twentysomethings’ lives when you realise that perhaps the vision you had for your life isn’t quite how things will actually pan out. In That’s Not Me (2017), lead character Polly (played by co-writer Alice Foulcher) lives that out in a warped – and often humiliating – semi-public eye as the identical twin sister of a famous actress. It’s one thing to live your life with such widespread scrutiny while coming to terms with your identity in your twenties. But it’s a whole other thing to live it out in a purgatory of semi-obscurity, faced with the exact image of what-could-have-been plastered all around town and permeating every aspect of your life – right down to your parents’ indifference to your suffering in the face of the dream-snatcher’s success.

Foulcher and director Gregory Erdstein, who co-wrote the script, both attended Melbourne’s prestigious School of Film and Television at the Victorian College of the Arts. Foulcher, an actress, transferred from the drama department to the film school after becoming disillusioned with acting, meeting Erdstein