Quotes

Personality

My biggest indulgence is beauty treatments. If I ever have a day off, I love to get the full works done – manicure, pedicure, facial, massage. It takes the whole shebang to revitalise me from the zombie state I usually arrive in.

Anyone that knows me says I never relax. I’ve been called the energiser bunny! I’m always busy and I love being busy. But if I have a late night partying I reckon the reason I get drunk is so when I have a hangover, I know I won’t get off the couch. Otherwise, I would just keep going!

When I was a kid I was always trying to figure myself out, but I did have one secret passion: architecture! I used to draw floor plans of houses and I still do it now. Maybe I’m just a dreamer at heart.

I’m kind of a bit of a dreamer and I like to have these ridiculous, adventurous fantasies. I’m up for trying anything once.

I have zero tolerance for incompetence. There’s nothing worse than when someone does a s**t job at something and they just don’t seem to care. It totally frustrates me and pi**es me off.

I am a big fan of lollies and chocolate. Dark Lindt chocolate balls are my absolute favorite because not only do they melt in your mouth but you can eat them in one go. Lollies are also my weakness and I have a lolly jar at home filled to the brim with Freckles, Sherbies and Milkshakes.

I’d like to take over Marilyn Monroe for a day and stand over that air thing.

I’d love to be fired out of a cannon because it’s great!

T4: And what should people stop doing, to improve our world?
Natalie: Smoking!

TOTP: Who would you make a voodoo doll of, and what would you do to it?
Natalie: Oh God, an ex of mine… I would poke it, I would pinprick it, put lipstick on his cheeks…and I’m not talking about the face. I would rip that thing up! Yeah… you?

Career

I’m still trying to figure out what I am. Singer, dancer, actor. I guess I’m still the same little girl playing dress-ups.

I think I write entertainer [as a profession] and it often feels like people think I’m a stripper. I kind of think I’m a mixed bag of lollies.

Natalie: I did singing and dancing at school, whether it be eisteddfods and things like that – competitions, talent quests.
Video Hits: Do they get quite vicious, those talent quests?
Natalie: Only when I threw them down the stairs.

“I have done auditions with different [good luck] crystals and stuff, and one time, I did this audition and I had a crystal, and a little fairy, and all these things that my friends had given to me, and I put them in my bra. I went and did the audition and little did I know that they were taking photos on the day, and when they printed it in this magazine, I’ve got, like, denty boobs!”

I got to kill people [in Prey], and it was so fun! I know it’s bad to say as I’m not a murderer by any sense of the imagination, but oh my god it was so much fun! It was really cool.

The other day a guy told me his flatmate watches the show [Neighbours] and throws things at the screen because he thinks my character is so awful. I just think that’s cool!

I got sent letter from the UK, and it was like 2 pages saying the latest season of the show was full of manipulation, sex and drugs, and how dare “I” do that to Karl and Susan… and I should be on the streets and die of some incurable disease like cancer.

T4: We have a theory that Karl and Susan are real people, and that ‘Neighbours’ is a ‘Trueman Show’ style experiment.
Natalie: It’s true! And I ruined their lives. Ha ha!

James Ash [Rogue Traders]: We auditioned lots and lots of people. Natalie was literally the last person we saw. And I was concerned about the soap star angle. We didn’t want to be seen as trading on anyone’s celebrity to achieve a further measure of success. So what it came down to was, who was the best? And she was the best.
Natalie: And I threatened them.