“The Americans were like ‘We’ve got to watch out for these Australians, man’. I got told that so many times,” Julia says. “I really was eager to take what I could get from the people who have done it before us in America and essentially bring it back here.”

The 28-year-old actor, writer and producer used the award – $10,000 for international study facilitated by the Helpmann Academy on behalf of the Independent Arts Foundation – to spend a month refining her screen skills in “the epicenter of the film industry”.

Flinders University Bachelor of Creative Arts (Drama) (Honours) graduate Julia trained at drama school Ivana Chubbuck Studio (ICS), which is connected with names like Halle Berry, Brad Pitt and Sylvester Stallone. She also studied improvisation and sketch comedy school The Ground

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