Woman’s Day New Zealand – August 26, 2019

What’s new on the

small screen, plus

music and books

MUSIC

SHORTLAND

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MUSICAL

The lovable

musical toured

around the

country last

month and now

you can relive every hilarious

moment with the original cast

recording. Featuring 16 songsfrom

the show, the album is now available

to stream and download.

APP

Calm

Have you been meaning

to give meditation a try for

a while? This fantastic app

is perfect for beginners

and offers short, guided

meditation sessions ranging

from three to 25 minutes.

There are also specialised

sessions to help manage

anxiety and stress or improve

sleep and break bad habits.

MOVIE

Angel Has Fallen

Gerard Butler and Morgan Freeman

star in this action thriller about an

attempted assassination of the US

president, which is blamed on his top

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difference in the

on-set culture between

Australia and America?

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quite self-deprecating and they’re

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at talkingabout what they’re up to,

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How would

you describe Cassie?

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wake up in the morning and go,

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starring in the new paranormal

drama series The InBetween. Her

character Cassie is a ghost-seeing

bartender who uses her visions to

help the police solve crimes. The

Love Child actress, 31, catches

up with Woman’s Day ...

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about the spirit world.

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that kind of thing?

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whole thing. Then after I shot the pilot,

I met a woman at an NBC event who is

a medium and it changed everything

because she saw someone with me that she

couldn’t have known about, and my heart

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Woman’s Day 73

TARAN KILLAM
He’s been making us laugh
since 2010 as a series regular
on Saturday Night Live and
he’s getting down to funny
business once again on
Single Parents. Taran, 37,
plays a 30-something dad
who’s been unlucky in love
after devoting his entire world
to parenthood. But when he
joins a group of other single
parents, they lovingly decide
to throw him back out into
the dating world.

BRAD GARRETT

Known for his role as Robert

Barone on the iconic sitcom

Everybody Loves Raymond,

Brad is already well established

in the world of TV. His voice will

also be familiar to many – he

has featured in 30 animated

films, including Finding Nemo.

In Single Parents, the three-time

Emmy winner plays a conservative

widowed father to identical twin

daughters. Brad, 59, says he tries

to give life advice to his fellow

cast members, “but they never

listen to the old guy.”