Actress Jen Van Epps spent years in Hollywood struggling to make her dreams of movie stardom a reality. But it wasn’t until she moved halfway across the world, to Auckland, that the 42-year-old finally got her chance – and now she’s a US box-office hit, appearing opposite Girls star Allison Williams in the Kiwishot horror movie M3gan.
After growing up in California, Jen moved to Aotearoa with her husband and daughter in 2018, at an emotional, and star. “I felt strangely unmotivated, even though acting was what I really wanted to do. I know now a lot of that was actually fear and self-loathing.
