Teresa Palmer bursts out of the studio green room looking like a Christmas present in a little black dress festooned with bows. “Chanel, babe! Chanel,” she cries, striding forward in boots that sparkle all the way to her knees. She's halfway through her Vogue Australia shoot; it's just past lunch – two jumbo slices of avocado toast for Palmer – and already she has ticked off another Chanel look (many feathers, very tweed), a Sportmax dress (splendidly highlighter pink), and some Dior, Hermès and Cartier, just for fun.
It is fun, all of this magazine magic – the lights, the camera, the action-packed schedule. And Palmer is good at it. Shots are nailed in less time than it takes to make a matcha latte. The 37-year-old actor and star of this month's Disney+ series The Clearing has been on the cover of Vogue Australia before – “the best magazine in the entire world!” she declares – six years ago exactly. “I feel re-energised being back on set,” she muses. “It's just a different life from mum world.”
