Did You Spot This ARIA-winning Local Producer In The Helen Reddy Biopic?

It seems that we here at The Music have developed a bit of a hobby out of spotting Australian music industry personalities making cameos in films. 

Earlier this year there was Cosmic Psychos' Ross Knight in True History Of The Kelly Gang, and now ARIA Award winning producer Adrian Breakspear (producer for Alicia Keys, Gang Of Youths, Amy Shark, John Legend, Jessica Mauboy, Johnny Hunter and many more) has made a big screen appearance in the Helen Reddy biopic, I Am Woman. 

If you look closely during Reddy's first trip to the recording studio (portrayed by Tilda Cobham-Hervey) you'll notice Breakspear sitting at a panel with another producer (actor Michael Gosden) and Reddy's husband and manager Jeff Wald (played by Evan Peters).

Breakspear explains that the role was originally meant to be fellow producer Michael Tan's but he was recommended instead when Tan was unavailable. 

"I'm the second most ‘70s looking engineer in Sydney, it would appear," laughs Breakspear when chatting with The Music. 

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"Michael, I think, was originally asked to do that appearance but he was actually busy so he recommended me, as the next most '70s looking person."

Breakspear describes the whole experience as "slightly surreal". 

“I had to go to a fitting where they dressed me in a few things - I turned up to the fitting with my little boy in tow too which was quite funny so I had to keep him busy while I was trying on lots of weird clothes. So that was quite interesting. 

"On the actual day, I went there. I went to hair and make-up, they straightened my hair throughly which was quite amusing, because I naturally have quite wavy blonde hair and they made it very straight. And then packed me off into the cars and sent me over to Studios 301. Our scene was filmed at Studios 301, which was a massive hive of activity that day..."

"We literally shot that scene all day, different angles mainly and different sections of it. It was good fun really, it was quite interesting. 

"It was really just a really good, fun day. It was nice to be almost on the other side of the, in this case, cameras I suppose as opposed to microphones. It was nice being the one getting to sit around and not having to worry about all of the technical details and just kind do your thing when action is called."

I Am Woman is streaming now on Stan. Read our full review of it here.