But the 49-year-old said she was grateful her character Mia wasn\u2019t a local because she didn\u2019t feel comfortable speaking in the New Zealand accent. <\/p>\n
Instead, the Perth-born star chose to embrace her own Aussie accent. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I was doing the show in New Zealand, I don\u2019t play a New Zealander,\u201d she recalled in a new interview with the Stellar<\/a> podcast Something To Talk About<\/a>. <\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m not going to do any disrespect to their accent because I just didn\u2019t even want to try. So I did my Aussie [accent].\u201d<\/p>\n Stream Ms. X from June 30 on BINGE, available on Hubbl<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cFor me I didn\u2019t want to do it to them because I\u2019m just next door and I\u2019m already struggling enough just being back here,\u201d she explained of why she didn\u2019t adopt the accent. <\/p>\n \u201cIt was too much for me. I had a new baby and I was like, \u2018OK, I just have to focus on the role.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n The role \u2013 which marks her return to Aussie screens since 2019\u2019s Bad Mothers \u2013 came in 2025 just after George welcomed her third son, Lyor. She also has sons Rapha\u00ebl, 12, and Solal, 11, from a previous relationship.<\/p>\n The three-time Logie winner now resides in France with her three boys, so she welcomes any roles that allow her to temporarily relocate to an English-speaking country. <\/p>\n \u201cI mean, over here [in France] I\u2019m not really speaking English much, which is a bummer,\u201d she told Stellar. \u201cThat\u2019s why, sometimes, I just like to go to an English-speaking country for a very long period of time.\u201d<\/p>\n Unfortunately for George, she did not get the chance to fly home to Australia during filming in New Zealand due to her on-set schedule. <\/p>\n \u201cI wasn\u2019t allowed because I was the lead, but my family came over,\u201d she shared. \u201cMy mother visited because I just had baby Lyor, so that was lovely. She got to see her grandson. It was a really good break for me, and also to do what I do best.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI like to be on a set. I like to tell stories. I like to be good at my job and I love being a good mum. I think the parallel of the character [Mia] was fighting for your kids,\u201d she added. <\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s interesting how far you will go to make sure that they\u2019re in a good way.\u201d<\/p>\n Indeed, the six-part series sees her character Mia team up with a high school friend and wannabe private investigator Oscar (Dean O\u2019Gorman), to search for answers following her husband\u2019s mysterious disappearance.<\/p>\n But their investigation goes disastrously wrong, leaving Mia on the run from police and a dangerous drug cartel, all while juggling kids and judge PTA mums.<\/p>\n Ms. X premieres June 30 on BINGE.<\/p>\n Read related topics:Binge<\/a>Foxtel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melissa George has revealed she refused to do one thing on the set of her new series, Ms.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,172244,183837,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-502621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ncaeditorialbinge","tag-ncaeditorialbingeprogram","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n