Naomi Rukavina, who stars as Dr Remi Varga-Murphy in Neighbours, is making a splash on Amazon Freevee's recently-revived soap that also stars The OC's Mischa Barton.
She plays one half of the soap's first lesbian parenting couple, alongside co-star Sara West, who portrays Cara Varga-Murphy and their sons JJ (Riley Bryant) and Dex Varga-Murphy (Marley Williams).The actress feels like she's scored a win by being cast as part of a family in a mainstream show, especially after TV bosses previously told her they "couldn't see it", purely because of her colour.
Speaking to The Guardian, she shared: "At one of my first castings for TV, an agent said to me, 'You'll never really work on TV, because we can't cast you in any family.
We can't see it.' I was so shocked. When I got the call the first thing I said to myself, to that casting guy all those years ago, was 'f**k yeah'. "They don't know the impact that a comment like that has.
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