Lynne McGranger, Sam Frost and Sarah Roberts gave fans a candid insight into what went on behind the scenes of the hit TV show
Three former Home and Away stars have discussed the reality of starring in one of Australia’s biggest TV shows in a candid new interview.
Lynne McGranger, Sam Frost and Sarah Roberts were chatting together as part of Sam and Sarah’s Cracking On podcast, when they each gave details of struggles they had experienced on-set.
Lynne was a theatre actress before she landed the role of Irene Roberts on the hit Channel Seven show back in 1993. She said the first couple of years were hard.
“I really struggled because I was so out of my depth. I’d never done multi-cam,” the star explained to her former castmates, referring to the way in which TV is filmed with multiple cameras.
“I really did struggle to fit in because there was this assumption I knew what I was doing, and I didn’t have a clue.
“I felt like I didn’t fit in for quite a while,” she added. “You girls possibly felt the same?”
The star’s question led Sam – who landed the role of Jasmine Delaney after appearing on reality show The Bachelor – to divulge details of her own difficult experience of working on Home and Away.
“When I started I wasn’t an actor and I had a lot of pressure on me,” Sam shared.
“It was awful, it was awful…”
She went on to say she was able to get through it because she had “friendships and colleagues who were right behind me going ‘we love you, you’re great’.
“It’s really hard when you’re in an environment with established actors and I think I was chasing my tail the whole time I was there, trying to prove that I was able to do it,” she said.
As part of a wide-ranging chat, Sam also revealed that there were some people on the cast “I don’t miss at all”, leading her co-host Sarah – who was formerly married to co-star James Stewart – to look her way and laugh, “Me too”.
“You miss some people more than you miss others,” Lynne admitted.
“You bond naturally with some people. It’s like any walk of life. I think people assume you’re best buddies with everybody and it doesn’t work like that.
“And also, you’ll have peaks and troughs with people.
“I’m a great believer in people coming into your life for a reason, season or a lifetime, and sometimes people are there for a reason – for you to learn something about yourself,” the veteran actress concluded.
“Even if you don’t get on with them.”
