Her boss pulled her aside. “She said, ‘You’re great, but this isn’t your passion. What is it?’ And I was like, ‘Well, I’d like to act, but I’ve literally never acted before.'” Within an hour, her boss had secured her an audition for a short film, and she booked it, with no prior acting experience. That led her to secure roles in the animated Lesbian Space Princess and the coercive-control thriller Bird Eater. She expresses the same mix of gratitude as she talks about her leap from Australian indie television to HBO’s The Pitt. The contrast, she says, is both extreme and strangely familiar. “It’s chalk and cheese in some ways, and exactly the same in others,” she explains. The budgets are bigger, the access is better, on The Pitt, she can consult real doctors and benefit from an army of specialists, but the core remains unchanged. “Everyone cares about the story.”