Mum's the word! - ANTONIA'S BELLY LAUGHS

The star is having an outrageous time pretending to be pregnant

-  Wendyl Nissen

Antonia Prebble is at the top of her game with show after show featuring her talents.

Last year, she headed to Australia for the SBS drama Safe Home and then went straight into rehearsals for Auckland Theatre Company's production of North by Northwest. She finished the year working on Shortland Street.

But it's her latest project, the bright new comedy Double Parked, from top Kiwi comedians and writers Chris Parker and Alice Snedden, which has given her a new string to her bow: the ability to act in a comedy.

"Most of the shows I've done, such as Outrageous Fortune and Westside, have been dramedies. I've never really acted in a comedy before and that was one of the reasons I wanted to do Double Parked," she says.

"It's quite a step away from the kinds of roles I'm traditionally cast in and I was really interested to see how making a comedy compares to making a drama."

What she found was something quite different.