Because I believe in her and I believe I know her so well. She has started to mature, and it throws me sometimes because of the choices that I'm forced to make in scenes: I think, 'I could've gone absolutely nuts there, but that's not where she's at now.' I was going off like a frog in a sock,” the softly-spoken Milosevic laughs. She is different on the outside; she's not as confident. I never pictured that happening: I could never have said when we started that, oh yes, in eight years we'll be in the middle of a pandemic, kissing eight years of your life goodbye and saying goodbye to these amazing people and stories and the character you love so much. She seeks comfort and she has a backstory that we don't really go into, having come from the city and garnered awards for bravery. SAS Australia 2020: Roxy Jacenko responds to critics after s... SAS: James Weir recaps episode 1 ’s shock admission after pu... Q&A: Social media feature that has Australian users stumped. A very, very clever character. If you had to sum up this second season in a couple of sentences what would you say? View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro. She breaks my heart. Picture: Julie KiriacoudisSource:News Corp Australia. We've yet to sort of do a flashback back-story, I don't know if that will happen like it did for other girls, but you certainly, you'll certainly hear about and meet some people from her outside life! She reads the landscape instinctively. Katrina Milosevic is an Australian born and raised TV actress, who was born in Mount Isa, Queensland, on 25th Of April, 1976 at Mount Isa Base Hospital and lived in Mount Isa for about 7 years, before moving to Mackay, Queensland. Boomer is a very complex character, and there's lots of room to move with her. She can see the good in people.”. But then, just sometimes, it does. Then finally, it was all happening and he asked her to come in and just when I'd read the script for the first time I hadn't seen anything like it, and it was grittier than anything I'd seen before, and for me it was a really, a real opportunity that's so rare, I think, in Australia, to play something that's quite sort of removed to how you are in real-life. I get there and need coffee straight away and then it's 'hurry up and wait'! Let me think back to series two... yes... yeah. As I get older I'm more aware of time on this earth and I think: I've done her, I don't really want to do that again. They love the structure and the camaraderie, and the rules: there's a Top Dog, you know your place. She's so respected in this country for particularly her theatre work - she's always been an icon - and when I heard that she was coming into the show, my jaw hit the ground. I have this thing with me and my makeup artist where every day was like she's breaking my spirit the moment the Boomer makeup starts to go on! Despite the indisputable amount of blood on her hands, she is one of the show’s most popular characters. “As a woman and a woman in this industry, it has been a looks based industry for such a long time. She is a spectacular actor! And she's very clever. [on Boomer her Wentworth character]; You know, I don't know that Boomer ever really wanted to get out. I often wondered about where she fits, tonally, and I try traverse both. Wentworth Prison returns to Channel 5 this September. In the first 4 episode she carries a lot of emotion. Yeah, you could say that! Former Bachelor Richie Strahan shocks fans with rugged new l... Lily James cancels TV appearances amid Dominic West affair s... Find out more about our policy and your choices, including how to opt-out. I got goosebumps when I learnt what happens. Source: Foxtel, Some days, it's not easy being Boomer, says Katrina Milosevic. “Some days on set we go to lunch and I’ve got no teeth [as Boomer] and I’m covering my mouth because I’m still conscious of it. Boomer didn't know how she was going to be on the outside. “She’d be like ‘whatever, I’m just really manipulative and have a whole gang of glam friends. Nationwide News Pty Limited Copyright © 2020. In a new and exclusive chat, Katrina discusses the evolution of her character, what we should expect going forward and more. “That is exactly where I’m at,” she says. Yeah. She does more than shake things up, actually! I don't think it's really hit me because, we've actually just finished filming series three last Friday (August 8), and I don't know if you know but the set that was built for the show is way out in the suburbs of Melbourne, and it's in an old Pharmaceutical factory, and basically we have everything from the editing suites to the post-production, to the sets to everything in the one building, so I've been pretty removed from the world really for 11 months straight! She's started to really hone what she wants from life, and she'll pursue it. “My theory is she’s the kind of person that makes you feel better about yourself. Wentworth season 6 trailer. She has more filters. “It’s such a personal thing. I think they respond to the four stock things Boomer responds to: loyalty, love, patience and attention. Becoming Boomer physically requires no conventional make-up — unless it’s adding dark circles under the eyes, blemishes, bruises and prison pallor, blackening out some teeth, staining others, and perfecting a filthy, dragged through-a-hedge look hair style that, at best, needed a wash a fortnight ago. And it is. The chance to strip away the hair and make-up and luxe clothes often demanded of female actors and leave … just acting. And sometimes, former model Milosevic concedes, it’s not so good for self-image in an industry largely built on physical beauty — no matter how secure you are as a woman. She was so hopeful that things were going to be okay - but of course they were not. So it was a real challenge and one that I really wanted, so I fought, and threatened! “I now find myself in real life thinking ‘what would Boomer do?’, and having to make sure I do the opposite,” she says. She takes her toll on me as well. If new people are on set I try to hide — I feel so self-conscious. I would love to have the opportunity to stretch myself in other ways. This is ridiculous, but I feel really proud of her. She also has lived in Mossman, Queensland for a short time, before moving back to Mackay. And the bogan in her stays out sometimes. [on working on the SeaChange reboot]: Siggy said she was vocal, bless her, but I've been in orbit with Deb and Fiona about other things. “People embrace her — physically as well — so many fans want to hug her, touch her when they meet you. I've worked with the start-up director Kev Carlin quite a few times and he sort of said: 'Look, I think there might be something in this for you', and then the date was changed, and I was on tour actually in the UK oddly enough and Europe, with a show, and so I'd heard some whispers somewhere along the line that the show was happening, and I can remember waiting up until all hours of the night (laughs) to see what was going on!