Veteran Aussie actress Miranda Tapsell has returned to work just weeks after welcoming her second child last month, and revealed her surprising reason for doing so.
The 37-year-old star is currently on a press tour for her new Amazon Prime Video streaming hit Top End Bub, and admitted she was fully back in work mode.
‘I basically got straight back into it,’ she said on this week’s episode of the Something to Talk About podcast.
Telling listeners that her new show was four years in the making, she added the romantic dramedy, a sequel to her hit 2019 film Top End Wedding, was ‘dear to her heart’.
‘I’ve brought two children into the world at a very precarious time, not just overseas but here in Australia.
‘I’ve put all of my thoughts, feelings and opinions into my work. I thought, “This is how I’m going to deal with my despair, my frustration at the things that are happening around me and in the world”
Miranda Tapsell has returned to work after welcoming her second child last month. The 37-year-old star is currently on a press tour for her new Amazon Prime Video streaming hit Top End Bub. Pictured: Miranda also features in a cover story for the latest issue of Stellar
‘I’m so lucky that people are so excited to see it.’
The Darwin-born star also found time to pose for a glamorous cover shoot for this week’s Stellar magazine alongside the two children she shares with husband James Colley.
The popular actress, seen holding her newborn Vincent, looked radiant in a baggy patterned suit she paired with white heels.
Elsewhere in the chat, the two-time Logie winner, and proud Larrakia woman, talked about the importance of getting people of colour onto screens.
‘That’s the reason I started making my own work,’ she said.
‘There has been a lot of progress [but] I think there is still trepidation when it comes to casting and writing characters of colour.
‘Making Top End Bub was just me wanting to make the kind of stuff that I wanted to sit on the couch and binge.
‘I wanted girlfriends, mums and daughters to sit down with a pizza or rosé, and watch these shows.
Miranda with her daughter Grace, three and her newborn Vincent
Telling listeners on the Something to Talk About podcast that her new show was four years in the making, she added the romantic dramedy, a sequel to the hit film Top End Wedding, was ‘dear to her heart’. Pictured: A scene from Top End Bub now streaming on Amazon Prime Video
‘I want popcorn television as much as anyone else. People weren’t making those kinds of shows, especially not with Aboriginal people.’
She added: ‘I deserve to turn on the television and have all of these choices. I wasn’t willing to wait for someone to go and do that. I was gonna do it myself.’
It comes after Miranda announced in January she was expecting her second child with husband James, who co-created Top End Bub with her.
Miranda welcomed daughter Grace in December 2021.
‘Christmas has come early for us as we welcome our Grace Birri-Pa Purnarrika Colley. Birri-Pa is Larrakia for Butterfly, Purnarrika is Tiwi for Water Lily,’ she wrote on Instagram at the time.
‘Grace has entered the world adored by her mum and dad, as well as all her aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents and so many more. We are extremely grateful, overjoyed and so, so tired.’
Miranda and James tied the knot at Panorama House in Wollongong in late 2018.
