Melanie Bracewell: Forget Me Not | movie | 2024 | Official Clip
Filmed at the Athenaeum Theatre in Melbourne 2023. | dG1fNnRqWFgtV2N5Y3c
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00:00The thing about doing this as a job, though, is that you don't really know what you're
00:03going to be remembered for.
00:04You don't know exactly what's going to catch on, and this happened to me.
00:08I'd been doing comedy for like four or five years, and then the lockdown came around,
00:13and I decided to spend my time locked in my house in New Zealand, dressing up as the New
00:19Zealand Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern.
00:26There's a few people going, you're not her.
00:35No refunds, but that was an odd thing that that caught on here more than it did in New
00:41Zealand.
00:42Like, you guys loved it for some reason.
00:44I was at home, and I was getting phone calls from Australian radio stations, like FITSO
00:51and Blippi or whatever, whatever the fuck you guys call them.
01:01In New Zealand, it's like, John and Karen, where it's like, beep, bloop, and bop, boop.
01:14Anyway, I get phone calls from these Australian radio stations going, we love your Jacinda
01:19impersonation.
01:20Can you come on our radio show and do your impression?
01:24And I'm like, that's weird, because in those videos that I made, I used makeup to make
01:32my face look like Jacinda, but I made no effort to change my voice whatsoever.
01:45I just have a New Zealand accent.
01:48They were like, it's perfect.
01:56I was like, a gig's a gig.
01:58The Jacinda thing was weird, because I was no longer recognised as Melanie Bracewell.
02:02I would just sort of go about my life, and people would spot me and go, Jacinda.
02:09I think I got her some votes, you know?
02:11It would often happen at the club.
02:16I just heard one go, ooh, it was an ooh of like, you don't go to the club.
02:27I dabble.
02:31I trade the boards.
02:35Pop a couple of anti-histamines.
02:36Sick.
02:44So I would often get recognised by very, very drunk women, but they'd only recognise Jacinda.
02:49They'd come up to me, and they'd be like, hey, Jacinda, you seem like you're in a state
02:54to talk policy.
02:59I know in that moment they don't actually think I'm Jacinda, but they're so wasted that
03:04I like to think that maybe the next morning, in their hazy recollection of the night before,
03:12that they wake up pulling M&Ms from their McFlurry out of their bra, just going, yeah,
03:19I think I met Jacinda last night.
03:23She was doing slut drops.
03:27Retirement looks good on her.