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that palace and what it’s all about and in season two you get to see how what they do in the palace affects the world around them. Obviously it’s a fictional country, but it does reflect a lot of the things that are happening in parts of the world and it’s getting a lot more raw and dangerous, and things are getting much more complicated, [laughing] so it’s definitely one to watch!
Do you celebrate when you win / earn these great roles you’ve been given, or do you think, ‘Okay, the work begins’? [laughing] Yeah, I don’t go out and celebrate, but I definitely make the first call to my mum and say ‘Yeah, I got a role’ and she’ll usually go, ‘Hey, well done Melikee – what you going to have for dinner?’ Oh, keeping it real [laughing]… Yes, I get grounded pretty fast! But yes, I get super excited, that’s what everyone wants, to get a role, so a little leap for joy for two seconds! [laughing]
That's convenient. You’re the Uber of the team… Ha ha! Exactly! I'm going to use that. With acting comes some rather glamorous photo shoots and red carpet events – do you love that side of the business? Do I love it? Umm no, I don’t love it at all, but I understand the importance of it and I also understand that I started working in a time when social media is ruling the industry and so it’s very
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easy for me to hear people’s opinions on the matter, when I’m still trying to form my own opinions and so I don’t have a view of it yet and I haven’t done enough of it to understand it fully yet! But I understand that it’s one part of the business where I have to show up to an event for a job I’m doing, and I understand you have to dress up and promote what you’re doing.
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