‘It’s hands down the most gruesome thing I’ve ever done in my career’
When you talk to women who juggle a career with raising children, they don’t always want a medal for it or to be referred to as a superwoman. They love what they do, as hard as it is, and there is always another project on the go. Westside actor Antonia Prebble is one of those women.
At the moment, she is appearing on our popular soap Shortland Street as the nasty televangelist Rebekah Anderson.
One reviewer has described her character as “fabulously creepy”.
“I’ll take that,” laughs Antonia, between takes at the Shorty studios. “It’s super-fun.”
Antonia explains that when producers first approached her to play Rebekah, one of the big reasons she wanted to take the job was because the role was so fabulous. “You just don’t get opportunities to play characters like this very often in your career,” she says. “Rebekah is in the show to shake
