‘It could be anywhere’: Celia Pacquola on losing vibrators and saving Stephen King
One of Australia’s favourite TV shows wraps up this winter. On Wednesday the final series of Rosehaven begins on the ABC, five years after duo Celia Pacquola and Luke McGregor first brought it to the small screen.
Real-life best friends Pacquola and McGregor wrote and star in the series, which follows the story of two unlikely real estate agents in a small Tasmanian town. Pacquola has a lot of happy memories from her time working on Rosehaven, stretching back to the road trips she and McGregor took around the Apple Isle back in 2016, looking for the perfect spot to set their offbeat comedy.
Here she tells us about a book she found on one of those trips and the story of two other important belongings.
What I’d save from my house in a fire
It would have to be some of my books and notebooks. I love books in general but I don’t really keep them, unless it’s a Stephen King – I’m a big Stephen King fan. Otherwise, once I finish reading a book, I’ll pass it on.
I only discovered Stephen King right when we started working on the first season of Rosehaven, actually. Luke and I were in Tasmania and he was telling me about how much he loved the book, It. At that time we were scouting locations; driving around Tassie seeing if we could find a place that felt potentially like Rosehaven. We walked into an op shop and there was a hardback copy of Stephen King’s It for $1. I was like, this is a sign! I read it and I loved it so much.
So if I had to choose one of the Stephen King books I own to save, it would be that one.
