Australian comedian Chris Lilley has released a cool throwback video featuring a top AFL WAG.
Before becoming a successful businesswoman and wife of Geelong star Tom Hawkins, Emma Hawkins, 35, had a budding acting career and appeared in three of Lilley’s ABC comedy series, including Summer Heights High.
Credited as Emma Clapham on the show, the future WAG can be seen sharing a scene with Lilley, 49, in their controversial series We Can Be Heroes.
Emma, who plays schoolgirl Briana in the 2005 series, appeared as the same character in Lilley’s Summer Heights High (2007) and again in Ja’mie: Private School Girl (2013).
All three shows featured Lilley as Ja’mie, a foul-mouthed 16-year-old schoolgirl and the center of a friendship circle of four teenagers, including Hawkins’ character.
Lilley’s Instagram post featured a scene where Ja’mie’s friends are dressed in pajamas for a sleepover and are playing with a Ouija board.
“Private school girl Ja’mie has a seance and communicates with Briana’s dead dog Chico at a sleepover with her friends,” the comedian explained in the caption.
In 2018, Emma, founder of children’s clothing brand Homegrown Kids, shared that she was only in year 10 when she first filmed We Can Be Heroes.
Before becoming a successful businesswoman, Emma Hawkins, 35, had a budding acting career and appeared in three of Lilley’s ABC comedy series, including Summer Heights High. Pictured: Emma, second from left with Chris Lilley and the cast of We Can Be Heroes in 2005.
The series is a mockumentary that follows a series of five characters, all played by Lilley, who have been nominated for Australian of the Year.
“Well, yeah… I guess you could say I was a teenage actress, similar to The Olsen Twins or Hillary Duff,” Emma revealed to her Instagram followers in 2018.
‘It’s obvious that we have all taken very different directions in our lives.
Emma appeared as the character Briana, a schoolgirl in Lilley’s Summer Heights High (2007) and again in Ja’mie: Private School Girl (2013).
Emma welcomed her third child, Henry, with her husband, Geelong football champion Tom Hawkins, in July 2022. Both pictured.
He added: “It was a very fun experience.
“I never dedicated myself to acting… Or did acting not dedicate itself to me? I don’t remember the details (it was (definitely) the latter).”
Emma welcomed her third child, Henry, with husband Tom in July 2022.
The couple, who married in 2016, also share daughters Arabella, seven, and Primrose, four.
Lilley’s Instagram post features a scene where Ja’mie’s friends are dressed in pajamas for a sleepover and are playing with a Ouija board. (Pictured: Emma appears second from the left)
