The Daily Telegraph - Sydney, Australia
December 29, 1997

By Bryce Corbett

Double-barrelled birth scene ... Danielle Cormack

Actor taps mother lode

IN the past 12 months, actor Danielie Cotmack h~s given birth twice.

Once in a veterinary clinic full of howling dogs (for the benefit of a film camera) and once in the relative calm of a hospital.

Such is the lot of an actress whose pregnancy serves as inspiration for a feature film.

As the unhappily pregnant protagonist of Topless Women Talk About Their Lives, Cormack was afforded the unusual "luxury" of concurrent pregnancies.

"It was great, completely self-indulgent and I'd recommend it to anyone,"
she said.

The film, directed by Kiwi Harry Sinclair, is straight from the (British director) Mike Leigh school of movie making, with actors given scripts only hours before each scene is shot.

While the film version of Gorrnack's pregnancy involved less physical pain than was entailed in actually producing her own baby boy, the actress would opt for the latter every time,

"Compared to acting out a birthing sequence in a vet's clinic in front of a film crew, giving birth to my own son was a breeze."

 

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