What can fiction writers learn from actors about character development? One of Australia's finest actors, Heather Mitchell, draws on her four decades of experience to share how she moves from reading a script outline to fully inhabiting a character on stage or screen. In this extended hour-long conversation, Heather and Charlotte discuss how actors use close observation, props and bodies, careful listening and attention to absence as well as presence in a scene to develop character. And Heather explains how knowing why you're an artist is key to sustaining a long career in the arts.