One of New Zealand’s most beloved actors continues to challenge expectations put on women in hit series she also co-created, After the Party
When Robyn Malcolm did a recent shoot for a magazine, they sent her through the proposed cover. She called them immediately. “I said, can you not do that to my face?”
Pushing against expectations for women to look and act a certain way – young, carefree, likable – has driven Malcolm her whole career, but especially since menopause. “They took notice, and they put me on the cover with everything as is. They said ‘We just thought everyone liked that’. Well, no, because I’m not here to make other women feel like shit.”
