I would say absolutely take the job, grasp it with both hands, enjoy every single second of it because your face will never really relate to the lens in the same way that it will when you�re wearing make-up.

Learn every single thing you can about the film-making process and relish the fact that not many roles these days on film or television allow you to exploit and explore transformation as an actor. Make-up will give you the chance to really draw on your theatrical roots and the roots of your training and really stretch all of your capabilities and skills. Because if you go in there just doing Home and Away soap acting then you�re going to drown and you�re going to die the death of a thousand deaths.

It takes a lot of psychological specificity, lots of deep emotional work and, more important than anything, lots of transformational physical choices need to be made to make science fiction characters or made-up characters live. The amount of work that goes into it and the amount of exploration you have to do to make the character work is a lot more than people would give it credit for.

So if you get that opportunity then you should be thanking your lucky stars that someone has the confidence in you to take that character onto the screen and make it live.