PADDLING HER OWN WAKA
Rachel House does a good authority figure. Paula, the relentless child welfare officer in Hunt for the Wilder-people. Topaz, Jeff Goldblum’s henchwoman in Thor: Ragnarok. The school principal in Baby Done. Her characters are not to be messed with, even if they are there to be laughed at.
She brings some of that to Penguin Bloom, an Australian film depicting the true story of a young mother left paralysed after an accident whose recovery was helped by the presence of a magpie her family adopted as a pet.
Sam Bloom, who eventually became a world champion para-canoeist, is played by Naomi Watts. House plays her kayak coach, Gaye Hatfield.
It’s not her only big movie role of the summer – House’s distinctive voice is in new Pixar feature , one of an increasing number of animation gigs she’s had since the Disney Pasifika princess movie , in
