Some of Angourie Rice’s earliest memories are of theatre rehearsal spaces, where she would sit quietly with a book or a journal, while her parents workshopped plays. She grew up “playing pretend in the corner while the grown-ups played pretend as well,” she says. Yet when a Perth talent agent suggested to her mother, Kate, in the mid-2000s, that he would be able to get film and television work for the precocious Angourie, then six, and Kalliope, three, Kate was hesitant.
“I said, ‘no way’,” the playwright and erstwhile actor says. “I’d had so much heartache sitting in casting rooms and not getting jobs, and getting jobs that were humiliating and terrible, and I was like, ‘No, I’m not doing that for the girls’.”
Kate’s partner, director Jeremy Rice,
