Taking the Flak - Ruby Wax
An obnoxious American news reporter? Step forward Ruby Wax. She plays a reporter called Candida in the latest episode of Taking the Flak, which follows a team of journalists in an African war zone.
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Who did you look to for inspiration in performing your character - any particular American anchors?
There were a lot of role models to draw on for obnoxious American. Like Barbara Walters. So many people who don't really care about humanity at all -that's what I grew up with in the States. Now they're making them in quieter versions, on the outside anyway.
How did you get involved with the show?
Tira - who created Flak and co-wrote it, is my best friend from when we were in kindergarten together. She had no choice but to include me. It's vital to make important friends at age five who can come up with the goods later in life.
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What was it like filming in Tanzania?
It was much more fun because it's a great country...not the same boring faces...all life is there.
I was able to sit in on one of the trials about the genocide in Rwanda at the War Crimes Tribunal in Tanzania. Shocking and moving.
On the weekend I joined Tira, our cameraman and glamorous lawyer from the UN on safari. We were surrounded by every kind of wild game like a re-enactment of 'The Lion King'. At night we had a tented camp to ourselves, the hyenas yowled, the stars were bright and the Masai danced with spears, guttural grunts and yodels while jumping three feet into the air. It was a little different than filming in the UK.
What are you working on now?
I'm doing "Live from the Priory" a play which eventually will go into theatre. It's a two woman show about the world as we know it and seen from the eyes of all of us.
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