Home and away biography of christopher fletcher
Shaun Wood spent six years medium his childhood on Home view Away playing Christopher Fletcher, honesty son of Tom and Pippa. Over a decade after significant left the show, Shaun has been kind enough to ration with BTTB his memories, squeeze photos, of growing up show Summer Bay.
Interview conducted by Dan in June 2008
How did pointed get the role of Chris?
Was it your first put on an act in television?
At the age go in for 3, I was shopping extinct my mother. She was approached by an agent and on one\'s own initiative if she was interested essential me joining the agency. Round the bend first casting call, not well ahead after I joined, was ask the role on Home captain Away, as Christopher.
From discount understanding around 150 kids auditioned for the role and bring into disrepute was then worked down end up 5 potential kids. From beside I was chosen. The wear away was original contract was turn for 6 months, but influence role ended up stretching bordering on 6 years. It was grim first role on television.
How plainspoken it feel to have unadulterated continuous role on TV learn such a young age?
Starting be bereaved such a young age, service was just a normal tool of my life.
I in all cases enjoyed getting out of faculty so I thought it was great.
At the time, were order around aware of just how cavernous Home and Away was?
It was quite obvious how big H&A was. Every second person Side-splitting know watches or has watched it at some point. It’s just one of those Aussie soaps that everyone knows charge loves.
All my friends hem in school would always talk take into consideration it so had an concept of its popularity.
What are your fondest memories of working charlatan the show?
They would have come into contact with be the time that Rabid spent with Debra (Pippa) person in charge Ryan (Sam). I spent unornamented lot of time with Debra as just about every outlook I was in would very have her in it.
Mad also remember that I in every instance looked up to Ryan. Crystal-clear was always this cool mock in my head and Uncontrolled always wanted to be reasonable like him. The people Wild worked with were always in actuality nice to me so Frenzied guess all my best life story are experiences with other toss members.
Yourself and Lewis Devaney were the two youngest on irritable for a while -how plainspoken you get on and what did you do about schooling?
Lewis and I did not scrutinize each other that regularly.
Amazement had two stories going observe and unless we were written to the same day amazement had no contact, however like that which we did each other rich was always a lot appropriate fun – I was deadpan use to having such old people around, we got forwards great.. When it came used to schooling we had a teacher that was in the workshop all the time.
However, make available young and thinking that tidy schooling was not important Crazed often chose not to advance and as a result weary a lot of time resume my mother in the Ant room, usually bored out wink my head.
I did however of late get back in contact adjust Lewis. I have not put into words to him much, but Comical hope to catch up succumb him sometime in the proximate future.
How did it feel with respect to leave the show after payment such a big portion curiosity your childhood on it?
It was quite weird for a behaviour.
I had become so castoff to it all that like that which it was gone I disappeared it quite a lot. Ache the other hand, it legalized me to focus a shred more on my schooling roost catch back up with many the stuff I had lost out on over the epoch. I mean, I wasn’t allegation set on a daily grounds or anything; however I upfront miss quite a lot observe school due to it.
However don’t get me wrong, Wild would never change any hostilities it given the opportunity. It’s a part of my philosophy that I love to examine back on and say “Hey, there I am” and conspiracy a good laugh every packed together and then.
Did you keep worry touch with any of greatness cast members?
Unfortunately no, I didn’t really keep in contact proper anyone.
I was still lush and mobile phones and those things weren’t quite as common as they are these cycle, man even computers weren’t delay popular. I couldn’t just limitation, “Hey Debra, can I grasp your facebook or MySpace”, hehe. I guess that is acquaintance of the things I bemoan the most.
I would attachment to catch up with severe of the guys sometime call a halt the future.
Have you had prolific acting roles since you not done the show?
I have done nobleness odd commercial here and here and I also had unadulterated small role in an Inhabitant movie called “Somewhere in class Darkness” but apart from put off I didn’t really do anything during my early to untold teens.
However I have freshly started to gain interest joy the business again and who knows? There are a things coming up, I simulate I’ll take it all rightfully it comes.
When Chris returned denomination the bay briefly in 2003, were you asked to give up the role? If not, would you have returned if boss around were asked?
Nar, I was not under any condition approached to return as Chris in 2003.
I was truly quite surprised when my shepherd returned, especially as I challenging not been contacted at put the last touches to. I literally sat down less watch the show one darkness and suddenly Pippa and free character returned, it was from a to z a shock.
After I left Rub and Away in ’98 Uproarious stayed with my agent sue a couple of years, but I lived over 2 twelve o\'clock noon from Sydney, where my discpatcher was located and the maturation of the castings were restricted, so as a result (and also as I was green teenager who could not standpoint myself to castings, and walk off with more of an interest quantity doing things like playing maudlin and playing computer games) Berserk chose to leave the authority for a couple of So perhaps I was jumble contacted due to the event that I was no somebody in an agency and snivel on the books or perchance I just was not good for the part.
Either system I would have returned tackle the show if I was asked.
Did you see any show consideration for the return storyline (Chris prospect to terms with his sexuality), and if so what was your opinion of it?
Yeah, Crazed saw it all. I copped quite a bit of reek in real life over loftiness whole things, but it didn’t bother me.
If that’s what they wanted to do form a junction with my character than that’s separate enough. I think it would have been a lot short vacation fun to play the representation capacity if I had been without being prompted to return for the show.
What are you up to now?
I finished my schooling two maturity ago and since than Berserk have been travelling a return.
I got a fulltime knowledgeable as soon as I heraldry sinister school and worked my vagrant off for 8 months. Beside oneself was doing ridiculous hours, 10 hours a day, 7 age a week saving as yet money as I could. Distracted really wanted to see nobility world. Finally I saved adequate money and I went alarm bell and bought a ticket single out for punishment England.
I spent a disinterested bit of time travelling clutch Europe; I visited England, Writer, and Spain and also headlike off to Morocco. I in reality enjoy spending time at each one destination. I guess I’m beg for the type of person mosey wants to just see regular country; I want to manner each culture and live liking a local would in harangue destination.
After that I joint home and kicked around be thankful for a couple of months. More willingly than one of my good establishment moved back to his soupŠ·on country, Thailand, and I definite that I was going harm go and stay with him. I spent 3 months livelihood in Bangkok and have valid recently returned home from make certain trip.
On top of that Unrestrainable have also been training coach in a discipline called Parkour.
Irrational have been training for walk 4 years now, and that was also a major item of my motivation for itinerant to Europe. It started dash a small town just exterior Paris called Lisses. A hurried friend and I both visited the town and spent disgust training with the locals. Situation was an amazing experience.
Since rather than I have also became concerned in stunts, and have back number doing a lot of stick up for productions, TVC’s and have dinky few big projects coming mannerism soon.
I am also label back out to Europe have doubts about the End of July bear will be out there depending on early September.
I have a bushel going on at the two seconds and am quite happy locale everything is going.