Malcolm is a single mother with two teenage sons, wrestling like women everywhere, with being a working mother. The problem is that while she has a burgeoning career in Australia she lives in Auckland – and commutes, twice a week while she has been working on Harrow. But every time she decides to move to Sydney or Melbourne she gets a job somewhere else. She is currently shooting The Outpost in the US. “If the kids remain in the security of their world and I have to be tired because I have to do the travelling then that is the way I want it. They needed to come first and they love where they live. I have these amazing nannies and the kids seem remarkably sane. We do their homework on Skype and tell stories and FaceTime each other.”

Malcolm grew up in Ashburton, a conservative farming town in the South Island. Her socialist family understood when she hightailed it out of there at 16. She instinctively knew that “these people are not my tribe, and I don’t think they get me either. I used to wear mad clothes. I got round feeling a bit different by being funny”.

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She dabbled in theatre while doing a degree in English and music at Canterbury University but it wasn’t until she started going to professional theatre that she realised “you could make money doing this. I was just one of those people that was fortunate enough at the age of 17 or 18 to have unflinching confidence. Not with other stuff but in the acting world I had equal amounts of desperate abiding love and passion for it, and confidence. I just walked into it and kept walking and didn’t look back. But the funny thing is I think I have got half the confidence now that I did at 17”.

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Malcolm spent years working in theatre where early on she was told by an eminent director: “You are going to have a brilliant career playing mothers and whores. I was insulted by that, but I guess when I look back he was right; it is the combination of those two energies I guess.”

Her tribe turned out to be the “creative, crazy, instinctive, emotional, narcissistic sometimes” people in show business. “Somebody said to me once that film making is like watching your beautiful home burn to the ground – you have got seconds to run inside and save what you can.”

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