Synopsis: Another child star who fucked up.

Inside Film (IF) Magazine Feature "I Can't Even Think Straight" by Ross Jacobs (edited)

(From an article about the sitcom production "I Can't Even Think Straight!" by Dean Francis)

...But what he (Francis) really wants to talk about it his latest project. "It's called MY PENIS WILL EXPLODE*," he beams. And why not? In keeping with the 'organic' approach of the jj splice team, this new project evolved from footage recorded fro the electronic press kit of I Can't Even Think Straight!. At the helm was filmmaker and performer Katrina Mathers, who encouraged the sitcom's key cast to adopt fictional off-screen personas. When Francis saw her footage, he knew there was a film just waiting to be made.

Six months and 40 Mini DV tapes later, a work-in-progress version of MY PENIS WILL EXPLODE screens at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival. It is arresting and hysterical, seamlessly blending fiction with reality and thrusting its audience between different levels of storytelling and perception.

A jj splice camera crew is present at the screening to capture audience reaction to Mathers (in character) suffering a nervous breakdown while trying to introduce the film. She is hauled away from the podium screaming, as the opening credits play.

"It keeps us off the streets, I guess," chuckles Mathers, whose sketch comedy series (Flipside) was recently picked up by the ABC...

*CRAZY RICHARD was originally titled MY PENIS WILL EXPLODE.

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