Sarah’s silver lining ‘GOING GREY HELPED MY CAREER’
Playing “snooty” is something successful Kiwi actress Sarah Peirse does very well. So the opportunity to portray a snooty winemaker in Central Otago for the new TVNZ series Under the Vines was too good a chance to turn down.
For a start, she got to work in her home country instead of overseas at the beginning of last year in one of New Zealand’s most beautiful areas, plus she worked with a plethora of Kiwi actors and crew. It was a lot of fun.
“It’s a charming show,” she says. “It’s funny, silly and also very sweet. There’s a lightness to it that was very appealing.”
Sarah, 63, says she has played haughty characters a lot in theatre, but not so much on screen.
“In my acting work, I seem to have a metronome that goes from snooty to undermined, vulnerable and potentially dead. That’s the kind of range I seem to occupy,” she laughs.
Her character Marissa in
