January 2024

January 2024

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Sometime over the course of last summer, #PhoebeTonkin reinvented herself. She was in Brisbane shooting Boy Swallows Universe, the new Netflix adaptation of Trent Dalton’s best-selling debut novel, in which she plays Frankie Bell, the young mother of lead characters Eli and Gus.

“It was probably more abstract research than I’ve ever done,” she tells BAZAAR’s @pattyhuntington. “It just felt so important to me to do this right and to honour these characters. I was doing all this research about people who’d faced adversity and overcome hardships. It was almost like a six-month vacation for my mind, because I would go to work and then, at night, I was nourishing myself with positivity from the podcasts and books that were so important to me for shaping the character of Frankie. But then [I] took on all those messages subliminally. I kind of came out of it [as] this really evolved version of myself.”

In her Harper’s BAZAAR Australia/New Zealand cover story, Tonkin opens up about the role that could be, if not career-defining, then at the very least the switch to make the film industry sit up and take notice of her.