Look,” Aisha Dee grins, angling her laptop camera to a slouchy, comfy couch in the corner of her living room in Los Angeles. “You're going to be sleeping right there, babe.” The actor wants to make sure that Mabel Li, her co-star in this month's SBS series Safe Home knows that when she comes to LA for a holiday she'll always have a place to stay.
Dee, 29, and Li, 25, only met during the Melbourne production of last year, but they're already close friends. Almost immediately, this three-way Zoom interview turns into a catch-up session. “You want the truthful answer, or do you want some bullshit?” Dee jokes, when asked how she is. “Mabel, how are you really?” (Li's polite response: “Truthfully, I'm a little bit stressed.”) Dee,, left Australia for LA at 17 and hadn't worked locally in several years before returning to make ; Li is the star of 2021's critically acclaimed period drama . But the pair bonded over drinks at Melbourne's Public Wine Shop – “and four baskets of bread”, Li recalls;
