Nadia Townsend missed the moment when Felix Cameron, the young star of Boy Swallows Universe , thanked her for the first of his two Logie wins on Sunday night. “I was in a workshop till about 11 o’clock, and then I tried to watch it and I couldn’t get on,” she says. When she did finally catch his speech “it made me cry.
I was so proud. He makes everyone cry. It’s ridiculous.
He’ll make the grips [the notoriously tough electricians on a film set] cry.” Nadia Townsend worked with Felix Cameron on Boy Swallows Universe. Credit: Rhett Wyman In case you missed it , having blubbered while acknowledging his parents, his brother and his sister after being named most popular new talent, 15-year-old Cameron, who lives in the Macedon Ranges, north of Melbourne, gave an even tearier shout-out to Townsend for her work in coaching him through the seven-episode series, just his second professional acting role (after Penguin Bloom ).
“I couldn’t have done it without you,” he said, referring to his dramaturg by name. “She had a saying, that we were climbing a mountain. Um, well, she never, ever clarified whether it was Everest or the Dandenongs, but I think we got there.
” By the end of the night, Cameron had also won best lead actor, as the series took out a field-leading five awards, including best drama series. In reporting on the speech, many outlets (including this one) misheard Townsend’s name as Towns, and mislabelled her as Cameron’s drama coach or acting .