BBC rips off her bodice by Court on April 6, 2006
Australia is stepping out of its stereotypical typecasting molds in the international television scene. Australian Natalie Mendoza comes from an Asian background and has played a number of cultural roles, but was pleased to be cast as an Aussie in BBC’s new show, Hotel Babylon.
“I though they were going to want a blonde-haired, blue-eyed Aussie-looking girl and I was really pleased that they embraced me,” she says. “They wanted something different which is actually reflective of Australia now anyway; it’s a very multicultural country. Working overseas there’s a real stereotype people have in their heads of Australians so that was a good sign that they were really wanting a modern, contemporary series.”