Moonlighting
From E25 something else so I became a pizza delivery driver but then I quit after three weeks.
‘‘I also freaked out and got my taxi licence so I could be a taxi driver, but I never drove a taxi.’’
That wasn’t the worst of it. A stint with an improvisation group while she was a student was particularly painful. It was at a Wellington Telecom conference that she decided she couldn’t do it any more.
‘‘I spent an hour in makeup, completely green faced and they attached this lettuce to my head. There was a hole in the buffet table, I had to climb under it and stick my head up through the hole and when they all broke for lunch I had to make jokes as a lettuce. I was so young and the money was so good but I just remember thinking, ‘I can’t sustain this. This isn’t my future.’ ’’
And even in seemingly greener pastures, there’s still no let up.
Hope and Wire actress Luanne Gordon, perhaps best known for her starring role on TV drama The Strip, found herself in an embarrassing case of life imitates art while living in Britain recently.
In between acting gigs, the Kiwi actress worked in her flatmate’s North London sex shop. She lasted only six months, during which time she was recognised by customers for the steamy soap she starred in back home.
She’s considering turning the hilarious experience into a short film.
Meanwhile between playing doctors on Shortland Street, actress Ria Vandervis is up to her eyeballs co-running an apparel