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After Bump fans’ hearts were broken by the tragic death of Davis family matriarch Angie – played by Claudia Karvan – following her battle with cancer in the series finale, they’ll be happy to know that she’s back (alive and well!) in the upcoming Christmas special.
Chatting with Nathalie Morris, who played teen mum Oly Chalmers-Davis in the Logie-nominated Stan show for five seasons, she tells WHO that filming has just wrapped on the highly anticipated Bump: A Christmas Film.
“Claudia’s character is alive because it’s sort of set between episodes in season five,” Nathalie explains.
“You know how there’s a sort of time jump between episode eight and 10? It’s kind of set just before episode nine, so before she dies, and before she kind of declines. So yeah, it was great, because we didn’t really have to address it. And it was nice to get the chance to act with Claude and not be sad.”
Having spent three years immersed in the world of her character – during which time Oly goes from a high school student who unexpectedly finds herself pregnant to her teen boyfriend, Santi to welcoming two babies and getting married, all the while riding the roller-coaster of being young parents – before going their separate ways last year, Nathalie says this film was a welcome reunion for the cast.
“It was just like a nice little victory lap, I think, for us,” she says. “To all get together and do something kind of fun. And it’s really kind of outside of the Bump world, in a way, because we’re in Colombia, we’re on a cruise, it sort of doesn’t have the same stakes as one of the seasons, because it is a Christmas film. So it was just like very sweet, funny, fun.”
As for life after Bump, for Nathalie, it couldn’t be more different, with the actress next to be seen in the third season of Foxtel’s AACTA- and Logie-winning series The Twelve – this instalment ominously titled Cape Rock Killer.
Her role, as juror Jazmyn Tanner, is about as far removed from Oly as you could imagine – and purposely so.
“One of the things that made me want to do this job – other than working with [director] Madeleine Gottlieb – is I was really curious about playing a character that was so far from Oly, and I was really grateful to that, because she thought of me for the role,” Nathalie explains.
“And I think so many others were like, ‘What do you mean? She so not the person.’ But she kind of saw something in me and where I was in my journey, and how I related to other people, that she thought would be good for the role – and I was grateful for that, because I think, in this industry, you can kind of become known for being a certain way, or having a certain image.”
Bump: A Christmas Film is coming to Stan later this year.
