With an Emmy win in January for Succession and an Olivier in April for her one-woman, 26-character performance in the London production of The Picture of Dorian Gray , it’s fair to say 2024 has been a big year for Sarah Snook. “Yeah,” she says, “there’s the before, I guess, and there’s the after.” Sarah Snook has become one of Australia’s most recognisable talents thanks to Succession.
Credit: Getty It may not be on quite the same scale, but recording the narration for Adam Elliott’s Memoir of a Snail , which opens the Melbourne International Film Festival on Thursday night, is another project close to her heart this year. “I’ve always wanted to do character-based voiceover work, so when this came along, and it came in a sort of obtuse way, through my agent, but it got missed, and then it went through a friend of mine from the cinematographer, I was so grateful for it, because it’s such a charming little film.” Snook voices Grace Pudle, who narrates the story of her life as a twin born with a cleft lip, orphaned early and subjected to such vicissitudes that she develops a hard outer layer, just like the snails she considers her best and sometimes only friends.
The stop-motion claymation film from Elliott, who won an Oscar for his short Harvie Krumpet in 2004, is dark and joyous, sad and uplifting, and an absolute delight. Snook voices Grace Pudel, the narrator and main character of Adam Elliott’s Memoir of a Snail, which is the opening night film o.