JACQUELINE MCKENZIE

The AFI-award-winning actor talks comfort food, rolling with the punches, and her love of cornflakes by the sea.

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Comfort food means something different to different people. Deep Blue Sea [the movie] was my first big project away from home, in Rosarito Beach in Mexico. And we were filming on this massive vacant lot in Mesa Rosatiro. They hadn’t built any studios there yet so we were working and living in a bunch of trailers. The biggest trailer was converted into a massive mess hall, where an amazing team of chefs were churning out masses of the most beautiful food I’d ever seen – ruby red lobsters on piles of ice, mounds of fresh fruit and gorgeous vegetables. But all I wanted was a cup of steamed rice and soy sauce. Comfort food. That was what my mum used to give me as a snack. It was cold and wet on set and that was all I wanted to eat. By the time we had finished shooting, I even had Samuel L Jackson eating it.