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The Busy World of Danielle - NZ Herald 26 July 2009

Danielle Cormack is going mental. At least that's what she says on the phone when she calls to again postpone our interview - not that you can hold it against her.

On the day we finally meet, the award-winning TV/film/theatre actor is dashing between three jobs -- as wardrobe mistress for short film Redemption, and filming two TV shows: new local, Lost-esque drama The Cult (onscreen in September) and Walt Disney fantasy series Legend of the Seeker.

She's also just seen off 13-year-old son Ethan on his first day back at school, but is somehow squeezing in a soda and a chat in the lead-up to the release of homegrown 'dramedy' Separation City on August 6.

After a stint criscrossing the Tasman for theatre gigs, Cormack was ready to sink her teeth into the relatively rare meat of a New Zealand feature film (penned by cartoonist Tom Scott). In her signature naturalistic style, she plays uber-organised, overtired, libido-less mum-of-two Pam, whose relationship with husband Simon -- played by on-the-up Aussie actor Joel Edgerton -- has become about as familiar and exciting as an old sock. This has left him with a wandering eye that settles on mutual friend Kati, played by heavyweight English actress Rhona Mitra (Boston Legal, Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans). Cormack, who admits everyone knows everyone in the New Zealand acting fishpond, relished the injection of internationals into a film that "didn't necessarily feel completely Kiwi".

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