eevblog wrote:
I was hoping she might come back for the Neighbours finale, maybe do a pool scene...
Recalling the moment she learnt that Neighbours would cease production after 37 years on air, Satchwell is funny and frank, saying she was “probably doomscrolling on the loo like everybody else” when she found out.
“It has been such an institution and training ground, and a cultural icon,” she says. “So there’s great loss there.”
While Satchwell won’t reprise her role of Anne Wilkinson in the finale – noting that “a lot of productions won’t share cast during Covid” – she admits that the show’s conclusion has prompted her to reflect on the cycles of life.
“I kind of feel like I’ve hit a clean slate, a new beginning,” she explains.
For now, that new chapter remains unwritten. She finds joy in gardening, cooking and watching her beloved AFL team, the Melbourne Demons, and describes turning 40 in 2020 as “bloody brilliant. “I was never really built to be a teenager or in my 20s. I kind of knew it wasn’t my jam.
“I breathed a sigh of relief when I turned 30, and I got really excited about 40 – and now 50, 60, 70 and, fingers crossed, 80 and 90. Getting older just makes more sense for me.”
