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Sydney Morning Herald
11-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
‘Not sexy enough': Pia Miranda on the negative feedback young actors face
This story is part of the July 12 edition of Good Weekend. See all 13 stories. Each week, Benjamin Law asks public figures to discuss the subjects we're told to keep private by getting them to roll a die. The numbers they land on are the topics they're given. This week he speaks to Pia Miranda. The actor, 52, is best known for her starring role in Looking for Alibrandi, which turns 25 this year. She has also competed on Dancing with the Stars and The Masked Singer, and won her season of Australian Survivor in 2019. RELIGION You have both Italian and Irish heritage. Is it safe to assume you're a Catholic? Yes, and I love all the traditions of Catholicism. My husband's a complete atheist – does not understand – but I get really excited about communion and confirmation – the sacraments. Obviously, being a Catholic has been tricky in the past few years. I still have problems with the Church's views on homosexuality and women not being ordained, but if everyone with progressive views left the Church, it would just be stuck in this mindset. I'm hoping people can change it from the inside out. Do you still go to Mass? Oh, I'm a fair-weather Catholic, mate [ laughs ]. I don't go to church on Sunday, but I still go to the Vatican and love it. The last time I was in Rome, I went to confession and the priest was like, 'What have you done?' And I went, 'Oh, everything but murder.' And he was like – seriously – 'OK, 10 Hail Marys and your soul will be clean.' [ Laughs ] I'm like, 'Mate, this is why we're Catholic!' What's your personal vision of heaven? People! I love people! If I got to heaven and all the people I'd ever loved were there – and there was heaps of food – I'd be so happy. And of hell? Full of people who gave me the shits. SEX What were conversations about sex like, growing up in your Catholic family? I don't believe I had many conversations with my family about sex, but I had an older sister and I learnt everything I know through her. I went to an all-girls school and wasn't really interested in boys for a very long time, and thought, 'Am I a lesbian?' Actually, the jury's still out on that.
The Age
11-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Age
‘Not sexy enough': Pia Miranda on the negative feedback young actors face
This story is part of the July 12 edition of Good Weekend. See all 13 stories. Each week, Benjamin Law asks public figures to discuss the subjects we're told to keep private by getting them to roll a die. The numbers they land on are the topics they're given. This week he speaks to Pia Miranda. The actor, 52, is best known for her starring role in Looking for Alibrandi, which turns 25 this year. She has also competed on Dancing with the Stars and The Masked Singer, and won her season of Australian Survivor in 2019. RELIGION You have both Italian and Irish heritage. Is it safe to assume you're a Catholic? Yes, and I love all the traditions of Catholicism. My husband's a complete atheist – does not understand – but I get really excited about communion and confirmation – the sacraments. Obviously, being a Catholic has been tricky in the past few years. I still have problems with the Church's views on homosexuality and women not being ordained, but if everyone with progressive views left the Church, it would just be stuck in this mindset. I'm hoping people can change it from the inside out. Do you still go to Mass? Oh, I'm a fair-weather Catholic, mate [ laughs ]. I don't go to church on Sunday, but I still go to the Vatican and love it. The last time I was in Rome, I went to confession and the priest was like, 'What have you done?' And I went, 'Oh, everything but murder.' And he was like – seriously – 'OK, 10 Hail Marys and your soul will be clean.' [ Laughs ] I'm like, 'Mate, this is why we're Catholic!' What's your personal vision of heaven? People! I love people! If I got to heaven and all the people I'd ever loved were there – and there was heaps of food – I'd be so happy. And of hell? Full of people who gave me the shits. SEX What were conversations about sex like, growing up in your Catholic family? I don't believe I had many conversations with my family about sex, but I had an older sister and I learnt everything I know through her. I went to an all-girls school and wasn't really interested in boys for a very long time, and thought, 'Am I a lesbian?' Actually, the jury's still out on that.
