spoke to you ahead of season two of Fisk<\/a>, you said you had to write a best-selling book [2019\u2019s 488 Rules for Life: The Thankless Art of Being Correct] to be considered capable enough for your own show, so this must be so satisfying.<\/p>\nIt is really satisfying, but also I think as the seasons have gone on, and we\u2019re now up to season three, I feel like it\u2019s probably the right time. I don\u2019t think if I\u2019d been given my own show before this I would have been able to do it. I\u2019ve met all the right people by this stage, I\u2019d done enough work to have the right experience, so in a way it was perfect timing. I waited until everything was ready and it\u2019s worked out really well!<\/p>\n
Did you see Aaron Chen\u2019s thank you speech on Instagram? He said he couldn\u2019t be at the Logies because of the injuries he\u2019d sustained on set during season three of Fisk \u2026<\/p>\n
Well, I have some inside information on Aaron Chen for you. He was contacted multiple times, \u201cWhere\u2019s your speech for Guy [Montgomery] just in case you win?\u201d No reply! However, once he was texted [Chen is living in New York] \u201cWhere would you like your Logie sent?\u201d the reply came back immediately! So make of that what you will.<\/p>\n
I love that you said on stage that Fisk is a show that families watch together. What do you think 10-year-old Kitty would have thought of Fisk?<\/p>\n
I think that\u2019s what makes it so special for us [Flanagan and her sister Penny, who is a co-creator of Fisk]. We watched so much TV \u2013 because we are of that generation where there was only one TV in the house \u2013 and you pretty much had to watch what your parents chose. That\u2019s why we grew up watching things like M*A*S*H, where we probably didn\u2019t realise what we were laughing at, you just laughed along because your parents were. It\u2019s really special to Penny and I because people don\u2019t do that any more [watch TV together], but we\u2019ve been told by quite a few people that they do watch Fisk as a family, and I think that\u2019s extraordinary given how times have changed and how viewing habits have changed.<\/p>\n
I have a friend who watches it with her teenage daughter, and they laugh together while watching it, which is so rare with teenagers.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m such an anti-glamour person, [and] with all the social media images [teenagers] are presented with, it\u2019s nice that they\u2019re also seeing a lady in a big baggy suit.<\/p>\n
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Aaron Chen and Kitty Flanagan as George and Helen in the ABC comedy Fisk.Credit: <\/p>\n
What do you think Helen Tudor-Fisk herself would make of all the attention? She does not like fuss.<\/p>\n
I think she\u2019d probably be as awkward as I am! It is a once-in-a-lifetime thing, to win five Logies like that, so I just have to remember that and enjoy it, and thank everyone for watching and voting. It\u2019s been so special and so lovely to get this [recognition] at this stage in my career and my life.<\/p>\n
OK, so Fisk won five Logies last week, in 2021 it also won best comedy series at Series Mania in France, and you also have a few AACTA awards up your sleeve, including for best narrative comedy series and best acting in a comedy. Where are you keeping all your trophies?<\/p>\n
I need to do what most Oscar winners do and keep them in the toilet, that\u2019s where most people will see them. They\u2019re just in my office, where no one can see them, but maybe I need to put them around the house as door stoppers. You want to make sure someone sees it because people do get quite excited when they see a Logie. People always ask me to bring it. My optometrist asked if I could bring it in, and I said, \u201cSure!\u201d I think I might be like [Gold Logie winner] Lynne McGranger and carry it around in my handbag.<\/p>\n
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Vincent Sheehan, Tom Peterson, Kitty Flanagan, Julia Zemiro and Glenn Butcher after winning the Logie for\u00a0best scripted comedy program.Credit: Getty Images for TV WEEK Logies Awards<\/p>\n
Didn\u2019t Lynne also say she wanted her ashes put in her Gold Logie?<\/p>\n
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It got a bit weird then [laughing]. She lost me there. I was on board when she said she would carry it around in her handbag, but when she said she\u2019d cut [the Logie\u2019s] head off and pour her ashes in it, I thought, \u201cThis is getting a bit gruesome Lynne.\u201d<\/p>\n
I walk past a house in my neighbourhood and I can see two Silver Logies on their mantelpiece through the front window. I\u2019m dying to know who it is.<\/p>\n
Ohhh, I wonder who it is? You\u2019ll have to wait outside in the bushes.<\/p>\n
What can you tell me about season four of Fisk? Is it coming?<\/p>\n
It\u2019s just a matter of everyone finding the time. It\u2019s an incredible group, and it doesn\u2019t really work without the whole group. And with Chenny flying the coop to New York, it\u2019s just a matter of getting everyone together. Penny is working on other things at the moment, but there is so much love for it out there.<\/p>\n
I interviewed Julia Zemiro a few years ago and she said she\u2019d love for you two to do a travel show together. Please make that happen!<\/p>\n
I think that was just us drinking champagne together in France. It\u2019s not a pitch yet, but we\u2019ll try and make it happen.<\/p>\n
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Kitty Flanagan as Helen Tudor-Fisk and Julia Zemiro as Roz Gruber in Fisk.Credit: <\/p>\n
And when will you and Anne Edmonds overthrow Sam Pang<\/a> as hosts of the Logies?<\/p>\nLook, as soon as he does a bad job. He\u2019s nailing it at the moment, and who wants to come in after that? We\u2019ll wait until he absolutely tanks.<\/p>\n
Last question, Kitty, is there anyone you forgot to thank that you\u2019d like to thank now?<\/p>\n
Yes! The Logies is all about the \u201cfaces\u201d of television, which is great and fun, and I\u2019m lucky to be considered a face. But there are so many \u201cfaceless\u201d people in our industry who do all the heavy lifting so that us faces can take the glory. So I want to thank them and in particular all the writers without whom none of us would have a job!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text size Kitty Flanagan and the team behind her ABC comedy Fisk…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-60052","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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