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MDA: articlesMiffed star puts boot into SevenIN SHOWBIZ circles it has been a poorly-kept secret that all was not well between AFI award winner Kerry Armstrong and Marshall Law, the Seven Network drama in which she once was slated to play a lead role. The former star of SeaChange shed more light on the saga this week, using Ten's Good Morning Australia with Bert Newton to launch a blistering attack on Seven. When Moonface asked her what exactly transpired, Armstrong ? who recorded the pilot, playing Lisa McCune's older sister ? was particularly blunt. "Three days after I won the AFI award [for best actress in Lantana ], I was rung by my agent who said, Channel 7 have decided to go ahead with Marshall Law, but they're dropping you'," she explained. "Lisa was very, very upset and she rang me and said, I feel terrible'. "There are rumours that I was too old to play Lisa's older sister," Armstrong said. The sister role now is being played by former Good Guys, Bad Guys star, the much younger Alison Whyte. A Seven spokesman told Confidential : "Pilots are the first drafts used to see what works and what doesn't in hopefully getting a successful series on air. "Kerry Armstrong is a wonderful actress ? a fact which made it an even tougher decision not to cast her in this series." Not that Armstrong is out of work. She's now starring with Jason Donovan in MDA , a medical-legal drama which premieres on the ABC on July 23.
July 13, 2002 |
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