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Daydreaming with Jeanette Aw in Perth

Toggle catches up with the Best Actress winner on the set of ‘The Dream Job’, where she tells us about the time she was left with 25 trash bags after cleaning her house

Daydreaming with Jeanette Aw in Perth

Photos: Tammi Tan
Videos: Teng Siew Eng

DIRECT FROM PERTH: Back in March, we packed our bags and hopped on a plane to Perth to join the crew and four cast members of Channel 8’s upcoming blockbuster drama The Dream Job. Filming took place for about ten days in the Western Australian region, and scenes from the overseas shoot will be featured in four out of the 30 episodes.

While we were there, we grilled each of the artistes on their various “dreams”: what amenities will their dream house have? Who are the dream co-stars they’d love to work with? Have they managed to achieve a childhood dream of theirs?

Six months after filming The Dream Makers 2 in Melbourne, Jeanette Aw was back in the land down under again. Thankfully, the work trip this time around was much more relaxing than the previous one, as she told us during our interview at the lovely Kidogo Art House in Fremantle, where she had just filmed a painting scene.

“Here, we finish early most of the time, so I can sleep as early as 9.30pm or 10pm,” she said. “For the previous Melbourne trip, which was very packed, we were always back in the hotel at 10 plus, 11 plus or even midnight, so that was really tiring. This time it’s much more relaxed.”

She was also much better prepared for the sketching scene, compared to the one shown at the end of The Dream Makers 2. “It (the scene in The Dream Makers 2) was something the director thought of at the last minute, and she decided that since I draw, we should do something about drawing,” she revealed, adding that it was “quite a challenge” because she only had a few minutes to come up with the illustration on the bus to the location.

For The Dream Job, the fact that Jeanette’s character enjoys painting was decided much earlier on, when the production team discovered the quaint seaside studio while scouting for shooting locations. To save time, an artist prepared the base for the painting of the scenery outside, which she would add more colour and detail to on film. Jeanette, who released her first illustration book last year, also continued to work on the landscape image when the cameras weren’t rolling.

The Star Awards 2016 Best Actress winner later shared that this was her favourite part of the Perth visit. “When I entered (the Art House), I felt happy almost instantly,” she gushed. “Seriously, if Singapore had such a place I would want it to be my studio! But it’s quite impossible because it would be so humid and I don’t think I would enjoy painting very much in that kind of weather.”

Click through our gallery for more pics of Jeanette in Perth, and to read about what she’d do on her dream vacation, what her childhood dream was, and why she thinks Zhao Fei Er was a dream role of hers:

WATCH:
Jeanette had the most expensive ice cream of her life in Perth?
‘The Dream Job’ cast describes their happiest dream

The Dream Job debuts June 28, 9pm on Channel 8; it will be available on Toggle-It-First on June 21.

Special thanks to Tourism Australia and Tourism Western Australia.

Stay tuned for our upcoming behind-the-scenes and travel features!

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