Ever since she was a child, Miranda Tapsell has loved to play dressups. So when The Weekly crew arrive at the lavish location we’ve hired for today’s shoot – an incredible heritage home in prime Sydney eastern suburbs real estate – the actor is in her element.
Swinging open the door to greet us, she spins to better show off one of the designer outfits she’s donned for the day. Lowering her voice, she puts on an exaggerated drawl. “Welcome to my hooooome,” she says, perfectly in character. “I’m riiiiicchhhhh,” before dissolving into a fit of giggles that feels far more like the Miranda we all know and love.
This sense of putting on a costume, of leaning into play, has been with the actor since her earliest years, she says later as we sit down after cycling through a range of outfits and poses around the property.
Miranda often felt underestimated growing up, she admits. Her height (in bare feet Miranda stands at a diminutive 149cm, or 4 feet 11 inches), her gender, her youth and her heritage have all played a role in her choice of career and how she tackles it.
“In my experience, I just think people don’t know how to talk to young girls,” she says now of those earliest
