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Cracking On with Sam Frost and Sarah Roberts

Grief is just love with nowhere to go | with Michala Banas

5/6/202641 min

Michala Banas has clocked up over 90 screen credits, but this conversation goes far deeper than her career. Michaela opens up about losing her father unexpectedly after creating a film together, navigating the depths of grief and signs from loved ones. 

Michala was also one of the first intimacy coordinators in Australia and explains the process of building safety, consent, and choreography around intimate scenes on TV and film sets.

Guest:

Michala Banas (McLeod's Daughters, Upper Middle Bogan, Blue Murder Motel)

Insta - @michalabanas

*Hosted by Sam Frost and Sarah Roberts, Cracking On is a podcast about the beautiful chaos of picking yourself up, resetting, and getting on with it. Each episode explores the funny, messy and inspiring ways people navigate change, whether that’s a career curveball, a personal setback, or an unexpected new direction.

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Clips

The last voicemail from Dad
A sign on a lollipop
Sky lights and shooting stars
What you run from
The burp that booked Amber
Intimacy scenes aren’t improv
A final performance together
“Put your foot down” advice

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Sam Frost· Host0:00

    [upbeat music] Welcome to the Cracking On Podcast with Sarah Roberts- And Sam Frost. This podcast is all about life's big, messy moments and how you just gotta crack on with it. You may know today's guest from McLeod's Daughters, Upper Middle Bogan, and she's now appearing in Blue Murder Motel, or, you know, you can probably catch her on, like, the 90-plus- [laughs] ... productions she's worked on since she was literally, like, five She's also just become a writer, a director, and an intimacy coordinator. In this episode, we talk about grief, reinvention, and what it means to give yourself permission to do the work that you actually wanna do. Please welcome our beautiful guest, Myhaela Banas. [upbeat music] So firstly, you wrote Packed Away. It's a short film- Mm-hmm ... that is airing at Flickerfest, and your dad stars in it.

  2. Michala Banas· Guest0:47

    Mm-hmm.

  3. Sam Frost· Host0:47

    The short film is all about grief and masking grief, and h- Sarah and I sat there- [laughs] ... afterwards just in shock- Yeah ... how wild it is that you've filmed this and wrote it, and then your dad passed away. Can you talk- Wild ... can you talk about that? Like, look at my arms.

  4. Michala Banas· Guest1:04

    Wild.

  5. Sam Frost· Host1:04

    I've got goosebumps. Yeah.

  6. Michala Banas· Guest1:05

    Yeah.

  7. Sam Frost· Host1:06

    It is wild.

  8. Michala Banas· Guest1:07

    It is wild. It's a weird old... Life is a weird old thing sometimes.

  9. Sam Frost· Host1:10

    Oh, it's crazy.

  10. Michala Banas· Guest1:11

    I think, um, I made the film for sort of two reasons. One, uh, my best friend had passed away, um, a couple of years ago now, but I didn't... You know, I was navigating grief in a new way that I'd never really experienced. You know, I'd lost grandparents and things like that, but not someone... I mean, she was like my sister. We'd had 35 years

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