Outrageously fortunate

A couple of months ago, Kiwi actor Antonia Prebble received the job offer of a lifetime. It was an exciting role in an international film, working alongside high-profile British actors who she hugely admires. At any other point in her life, she would’ve grabbed the opportunity with both hands. This time though, heavily pregnant and with a toddler at home, the timing couldn’t have been worse.

“It would’ve meant flying to Croatia with a six-week-old baby and a two-year-old,” tells the former Westside star, sitting down to chat over a cup of English Breakfast at a café near her Auckland home. “I ran the idea past my mum and she was like, ‘That sounds like a complete nightmare!’ Throw into that the fact we’re in the midst of a pandemic – it really was just impossible timing.”

That’s not to say the 37-year-old and her fiancé Dan Musgrove didn’t briefly consider it. They did. But in the end, motherhood won out.

“If you’d told me a few years ago that I’d turn down a role like that, I wouldn’t have believed you, because it really