On-screen couple Sarah Grace and Paul Moore, from Channel Seven’s Winners and Losers, are also husband and wife in real life.
The Geelong stars married after Paul proposed on game show Deal or No Deal in 2007.
Larni Salathiel caught up with them at their Mooregrace Actors studio in Newtown.
What’s it like being married and working together?
Sarah: I get a bit over looking at his face sometimes (laughs). We’re used to working together because we run the acting studio together but mostly it’s helped us be real on set. We can totally be ourselves around each other and people love that. Paul kissed me with a mouthful of pizza in one scene and you can’t do that to an actor normally, so it’s easy because we’re so comfortable with each other.
Do your roles reflect what your relationship is really like?
Sarah: No, kind of, maybe a little. Perhaps more than I want to admit (laughs).
Paul: So many times I say something and Sarah will say ‘That’s such a Wes comment!’ Wes is pretty slow and I’m no genius but I’d like to think I’m a bit cooler and smarter in real life. Well, let’s hope. There are definitely aspects of us in the characters but it’s probably just magnified. Sarah is not usually as much of a bitch as Bridget (laughs).
Sarah, what was it like being proposed to on TV? Were you shocked?
Sarah: Yes, I had no idea it would happen. I remember them calling me down and thinking ‘They don’t usually call people down here, they must think I’m good at this game’ (laughs).
Paul: I hadn’t actually got Sarah a ring at this stage because I thought it was a little bit cheesy and wanted to do it properly again somewhere more romantic after the show. A couple of days went by and she gave me a few hints to hurry up, so I bought the ring and planned to take her somewhere nice on Valentine’s Day and do it properly. The problem was I forgot to book in anywhere, so I ended up cooking her steak at home and proposing in the ad break of Mean Girls. It could possibly be the worst proposal in the history of mankind but she said yes.
To keep reading about Paul and Sarah’s on and off-screen romance and why they believe Australia’s television industry is worth working in, turn to page 26 of GC’s spring edition.
