Kat Stewart reveals Five Bedrooms is one of the first productions to resume filming after COVID-19

Kat Stewart has revealed Five Bedrooms will be one of the first Australian televisions shows to resume production after COVID-19.  

Speaking to The Project on Wednesday, the 36-year-old Offspring star explained the cast and crew would be heading back to film on Friday, after a two-hour safety briefing. 

Five Bedrooms was two-thirds of the way through filming season two when production was forced to shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic.

‘We shut down on about the 20th of March, so it’s been three months and we’re one of the first shows to start back up again and we’re so excited,’ Kat said. 

‘We’ve got a big two hour briefing tomorrow. The documents we’re working with are about forty pages long. They’ve gone into so much detail about the new practices and how to make it work.

‘I feel really confident they doing everything they possibly can to make it safe. We just love the show so much, we just want it to get it out there.’ 

But not everybody on The Project panel was quite as optimistic.  

‘They can make [the show] safe, but can they make it good?’ host Waleed Aly asked.

He then went on to clarify the show’s first season featured the five main actors in one house, which didn’t lend itself to social distancing. 

‘I think it’s going to be interesting, but the aim is for it to be seamless,’ Kat replied.

Before adding: ‘The audience will not be able to tell what’s pre-COVID and what’s post-COVID.’

Kat went on to explain they would be moving to larger spaces to film, but the primary aim was to maintain the ‘integrity’ of the production.   

‘I feel really confident they’ve got it under control,’ she said.