Good Health Choices New Zealand – August 2019

FUNNY GIRLS’ STAR AND AUCKLAND

THEATRE COMPANY ACTOR

BRYNLEY STENT OPENS UP ABOUT

SOME MEMORABLE MOMENTS AND

OVERCOMING A HEALTH CHALLENGE

Last word

What’s your go-to technique

for learning lines?

Recording my lines on my phone and then playing it through

my speaker system in the car whenever I’m driving

somewhere. Also I tell myself I can do it – the

moment you doubt yourself is when it gets

hard! I just say, ‘Okay Brynley, this will be

in your brain in 15 minutes – go.’

WHAT BOOK

IS ON YOUR

BEDSIDE

TABLE?

Currently it’s

the recipe book

Plenty by Yottam

Ottolenghi.

You were recently

diagnosed with

PCOS. How have you

coped with that?

I ‘d been on the Pill for 12 years

and it masked my symptoms.

When I came off it things weren’t

right – I struggled to lose weight

(even on super strict workouts or

eating plans), I only got my

period every six months and my

skin broke out. It was a relief to

get a diagnosis as it made sense,

and I knew what to combat! I’ve

learned that food is really

good medicine!

Most

memorable

moment on stage?

I was at drama school, performing in a

play called Earthquakes in London. My

friend Jack and I were doing a scene

and then a real earthquake hit! The

audience made worried noises and

the lights shook a bit. Jack and I

stopped for a second, staring at each

other, then took a breath and kept

going with the scene.

Favourite dish for a lazy

Sunday brunch?

I’m a peanut butter/porridge freak and

I recently got an amazing black forest

porridge with dark chocolate peanut

butter on top from Fix and Fogg in

Wellington. That was pretty dope. I’d

have that every Sunday if I could.

The best trip ever?
Europe. I loved it because my two
best friends and I went on a whirlwind
taster-trip and saw six different
countries in 14 days.

What’s the craziest/

most challenging fitness

class, outdoor pursuit or

exercise routine you’ve

tried?

The Tough Mudder at Hampton

Downs was a pretty wild time.

I have a vivid memory of being pulled

up the side of a huge, slippery ditch

by three strangers covered in mud.

PHOTOGRAPHY

GETTY IMAGES AND SUPPLIED

Brynley performs in Six Degrees

of Separation at the ASB theatre

from 14-29 August. Visit atc.co.nz