Bella Heathcote

She left for LA more than 10 years ago to pursue her acting career, but Bella Heathcote's latest role brought her back home. She talks about hard work, ...

“I was just a bit too picky at the time, so I picked myself out of work,” she recalls. “My friend talks about the top three: there’s money, there’s the calibre of the project and there’s location. I definitely want to do as much of it as I can.” Bella first moved to the US back in 2010, after appearing in a handful of episodes of Neighbours in 2009 and the Australian film Beneath Hill 60 in 2010. She’s so good and she’s so generous with her offscreen work, which people of her calibre sometimes aren’t.” “Offscreen work” isn’t a familiar term for those outside of the industry, so Bella explains what she means. “She’s so prolific in the work she does. “She’s such a powerhouse,” she says. “But if the job is that dependent on the hair, then I hope they can figure it out with a wig. “I’ve been wanting to do this for years and I was always talked out of it for some reason or another,” she says, running her fingers through her inch-long, naturally brown hair. Then the shit hit the fan, so I jumped on the plane thinking I’ll be back in a few weeks. It’s a far cry from the long, bleached-blonde hair she’s pictured with here and in her latest role in Netflix’s Pieces of Her.