Inside Soap Operas: Simone Singh and Sarah Mayberry
"We try and spread the villainy across the sexes", a television script writer from Australia and an Indian soap opera star on how to thrill an audience.
Simone Singh is an award winning Indian television and film actress. She became a household name for playing the title role in the popular serial drama Heena. The audience was sympathetic to the heroine of this show, but Simone says even when she played a "baddie" she doesn't lose fans because "they remember your past work, they love you anyway".
Sarah Mayberry works on Australia's longest running soap opera, Neighbours, as a script writer and story liner. She describes the storyline meetings as intense, where the team "absolutely bare their souls" when using personal experience to brainstorm ideas. Sarah has worked on Neighbours for 16 years and says they "spread the villainy across the sexes".
(Picture: Simone Singh - Left and Sarah Mayberry - Right)
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